AA thread/your higher power?

This comes up a lot in AA and im not trying to start controversy or anything but i’m trying to grasp my higher power or god or spirutality or whatever you want to call it. To be honest i think my higher power is trying to screw me (in a bad way). Anything is acceptable but what is your higher power which i constantly hear can be anything. Please keep it civil and there aren’t wrong answers. I just want to grasp what people in AA are always talking about. Also its been extremely hard to stay sober. Alcohol in truth does help the voices and emotions i hear and feel. But i try to stay sober as much as possible

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your future man… baby step your way to a better next year. In a decade you’ll look back and… well you’ll see. It’s laughably painful how dumb we all can be. Start laughing now and reject your temptations… you can get there without being rigid…

You need to understand what makes you feel fulfilled. Unfortunately you gotta do that alone. You gotta be alone and lonely and craft a future for yourself. That’s how it is these days.

Conversate brother… these folk don’t got ■■■■ on you and you don’t have ■■■■ on them.

You’re a part of this world… it ain’t against you. Through away the absolutes. It’s a hybrid state.

It’s your future dude. Be modest and make it what you want. Never turn away from people who care.

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I try to trust in a loving spirit of light that i believe is beyond my current understanding. I also trust Jesus is part of the light. I also believe Buddhism is an elaborate message inin my life. I haven’t drank in 18 years. I practice the 12 steps and i try to be randomly kind.

In my search for truth i also question if god is a trixter. I don’t doubt that there is a trixter being in the spirit world but i try to trust in love

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In spite of a lot of evidence to the contrary, I do believe there is an all powerful, benevolent spirit that guides the universe. I’ve been visiting some near death experience sites on the internet, and the stories these people tell about their near death experiences say there is a higher power of this description. These stories have the ring of authenticity. I don’t really believe in a Christian conception of God. I have trouble with the concept of hell, though there are stories of near death experiences where people went to a hellish place. Every one of those hellish experiences that I have read about were overturned, and the person went to heaven after a period of time in a hellish place. I have trouble with a God who would condemn us to intolerable suffering for all eternity because we failed to worship him or her right. Also, I have trouble with the story of Jesus. I don’t like the idea that some infinitely gentle being was tortured and killed so we can sin. It does seem to be a part of human nature to expect this kind of sacrifice to redeem our imperfect lives, though. I believe there is some type of accountability for our sins, but it probably doesn’t fit with traditional beliefs about our being judged by God. Maybe there is some kind of criteria God uses to judge us that we don’t understand. I do believe we are judged for our shortcomings, but I don’t believe we are condemned to intolerable suffering for all eternity because of them. As for believing there is a higher power that will keep me sober; I never have experienced that.

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Your higher power can just be the AA group that you go to. It can be God if you believe in God. Basically, something that is not you.

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So can bunnies be my higher power?

Bzzzzzst. No. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Moved to Health and Recovery.

Pixel.
(Wearing moderator hat)

For me “GOD” is…

Good
Orderly
Direction

I just say the prayers I need to, do the things I have to, and stuff seems to work out like it should. I’m not really religious or spiritual. I don’t go to church. I don’t even take the Bible seriously. I learned long ago that this is not a part of AA’s program that I need to fixate on or overthink. It’s one of those bits that works quietly in the background and I’m content to go on living without peeking in the mouth of that gift horse. 24 years sober and counting.

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I had trouble withe concept of a “higher power” when I first joined AA. Before I joined the program I considered myself an agnostic. In fact it took me three years in the program before I could believe in a higher power. The process of “coming to believe” for was definitely a “fake it until you make it” process. I slowly let myself grasp the concept. But I started praying to whatever is out there and slowly, tenatively I opened my mind and let myself believe. My higher power can not be described with details. It’s just a vague belief that there’s an entity out there somewhere that lets me lean on it. I don’t know if it’s a blob of energy, or a ray of light, or a cloud of good will. But it’s out there, and I must be doing something right because last January 1st I celebrated 26 years clean.

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