“The only thing you need to know is that there is a God, and you’re not it!”

“The phrase ‘God as we understand him’ is perhaps the most important expression to be found in our whole AA vocabulary. Within the compass of these five significant words there can be included every kind and degree of faith, together with the positive assurance that each of us may choose his own.”

Adapted from The Language of the Heart

“I have had many experiences with atheists, mostly good. But I do always entreat these folks to look to a ‘Higher Power’ – namely, their own group. When they come in, most of their A.A. group is sober, and they are drunk. Therefore, the group is a ‘Higher Power.’ That’s a good enough start, and most of them do progress from there. I know how they feel, because I was once that way myself.”

Adapted from As Bill Sees It

Meditation for the Day "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and even forever more." The Unseen Spirit can guide all your movements, your goings and comings. Every visit to help another, every unselfish effort to assist, can be blessed by that Unseen Spirit. There can be a blessing on all you do, on every interview with one who is suffering. Every meeting of a need may not be a chance meeting, but the Unseen Spirit may have planned it. Led by the Spirit of the Lord, you can be tolerant, sympathetic, and understanding of others and so accomplish much. Prayer for the Day I pray that the spirit of God may lead me. I pray that the Lord will preserve my goings and my comings.”

Adapted from Twenty-Four Hours a Day