Monday, April 26, 2010

Faith Knocking On The Door - Am I Out?

This morning I was awakened by a loud pounding on the front door - the dogs erupted, and I leapt out of bed and rushed to see what all the commotion was about. It was a Jehovah's Witness, wanting to proslytise me. When I'm awake and this happens, I will firmly state that I consider this an invasion of my privacy, and would they please note down this address as a no-go zone, but having not had my first coffee of the day, I refused (far more politely than I wanted to,) and closed the door.

A short while later, I read this in Courage to Change. page 117:
"Many of us need time to come to terms with the spiritual nature of the Al-Anon program. If we were required to believe in a Higher Power in order to participate in Al-Anon, we might never have continued to attend meetings. Eventually, many of us do come to believe in a Higher Power because we are free to come to our own understanding in our own time. That way, whatever we learn will have meaning for us."

3 comments:

  1. The second half of the movie was better than the first for me. I'm just glad that there was a real Lois and a real Bill who did the footwork for many of us to follow the path to recovery.

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  2. I didn't watch the movie. I will read her bio though. I am one that the page from C2C was written for. If religion had worked for me I would never have found alanon. I found my HP in Alanon. A miracle. I love and respect our program too. We are of a like mind.

    ♥namaste♥

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  3. Except for the costumes and sets, I didn't like the movie that much, either. I watched it entirely and at the end, thought, well, it's Hallmark, what did I expect? I think the best part of the movie was that maybe it'll reach people who will be able to relate and who may benefit from knowing more about Al-Anon or AA. Other than that, I thought it was basically smarmy.

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