Daily Reprieve

Step Two: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

2nd Step Principle: Our inner struggles are a shadow of a loving Power greater than our current existence and we are developing an awareness of this reality and are slowly turning around to see the true from the false. (Principles after the First Step are constructed from personal reflection and acceptance. Use my version or formulate your own.)

AA Extracted Value: Hope

ACA Extracted Values: Open-mindedness & Clarity

Other Extracted Values: Awareness

We are neither insignificant nor are we alone in the Universe. But I suspect that we are free for the sake of transformation. The silence of the Lonely Infinite insures that freedom. Thus I am free to build in the shadow and explore empowering myself in isolation. I pursue it because I know I want to be more than what I am.

Why am I not happy being a mortal animal? Is it because I sense there is more to this life than that?

I imagine the God of my understanding saying, “Why am I not content being the only living entity? Why does My loneliness ignite an unquenchable flame? Should I create beings that can withstand becoming alive in the infinite realm?” Of course, omniscience would provide simultaneously the question and the answer. It is difficult to wrap my head around the omni-nature of an infinite existence. But just like film can slow down the travel of a speeding bullet for our analysis, maybe I can slow down a thought for my own consideration. And yours.

“It is not good for man to be alone.”

~ Moses acting as ghostwriter for God in the origin myth of Eden when humanity was neither male nor female.

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