"We need to save those Elders who cannot speak for themselves --
the trees." Haida Gwaii Traditional Circle of Elders
My
friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, "Why don't you choose your own
conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain
in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the
sunlight at last. It
was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than
myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.
I saw that growth could start from that
point. Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw
in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I
would! Big Book pg. 12 Creator teach me to understand that you are all things.
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