Saturday, April 16, 2016

In HP's Hands

Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives. Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in? ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (Kindle Locations 321-323). AA
Just how and by what specific means
can we let HP in? "We can have faith,
yet keep God out of our lives."
Haven't we practiced that, we children
grown up in the church to be addicts?
God, take away this fat. God, help me
to stay on this diet, not like all the rest.
God, I want to be thin! And I want it NOW!
Step Three says to turn our will and lives over.
Yeah, sure! So what has changed to do that?
But it can be done. By beginning.
A tenth of a baby step even if you don't know how.
There's a lock in a door where the key
is willingness. That, we can find, at least a bit,
and as soon as that key is placed in the lock
it opens, however slightly, and we can always
open it more. And when we do that,
we've done what we needed to do,
and the beginning is made
to turn our will and lives over to HP.
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