The Hand of God Seemed Heavy or Unjust
November 3, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
As it does far too often for my personal happiness – today…
From pages 104-105 in AA’s 12&12;
“We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.”
I’m going to tell you from personal experience not to get your expectations up even though you’ve stopped placing demands upon the God you understand.
“Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.”
Not today or yesterday…
“He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does ‘move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.’”
Never-ending emotional pain is just that – a royal pain. Alcohol is not the solution! There is nothing I am feeling right now that pouring alcohol on wouldn’t make worse by untold numbers. I’m grateful I understand that today.
