She suggested that I borrow her Higher Power while I was trying to define my own. If that was not big enough, I could take all the Higher Powers from everyone at our big meeting. It reminded me of taking little pieces of clay from here and there until I had a big pile. ~Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 655-657).
A collection of Higher Powers?
God, Allah, the Tao, Ahone, Keri,
Great Spirit, Horus, Thoth, Ishvara,
Ghagavathi, Ahura Mazda...
a collection of higher powers.
The group, Howard (be thy name),
GUS (guy upstairs), nature,
the universe, demiurge,
Mars, Venus, Pluto, Thor...
a collection of higher powers.
The chair that holds me up,
the rainbow, the ocean, the wind...
We came to believe a power
greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
And as we felt our way through
learning what this might mean
we also came to understand
this was an organization...
a program of recovery, rather...
that left the details
to the individual
and that person's needs,
willingness to embrace,
and personal understanding.
God, Allah, the Tao, Ahone, Keri,
Great Spirit, Horus, Thoth, Ishvara,
Ghagavathi, Ahura Mazda...
a collection of higher powers.
The group, Howard (be thy name),
GUS (guy upstairs), nature,
the universe, demiurge,
Mars, Venus, Pluto, Thor...
a collection of higher powers.
The chair that holds me up,
the rainbow, the ocean, the wind...
We came to believe a power
greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
And as we felt our way through
learning what this might mean
we also came to understand
this was an organization...
a program of recovery, rather...
that left the details
to the individual
and that person's needs,
willingness to embrace,
and personal understanding.
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