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“God is everything or God is nothing.“

That’s one of the biggies in the AA slogan catalog. God is everything or God is nothing. Throw that quote out sometime in your sharing and gather up the nods of approval at your next meeting.

So what exactly is my stand on God?  I can honestly tell you that has gone the full spectrum in my life, from believer to non-believer back to believer and making all stops in between those points. Currently I am leaning heavily towards there is an intelligence we call God who created all, but he doesn’t mettle into the humans affairs. There are no rewards for pious living from God. And God does not dish out punishments either.

Before sobriety I learned that God will not assist you no matter what’s going on. You can read about those lessons learned in an earlier posting here.  And then the program and recovery become part of my life. During this period of my life, prayer and “leading a life where God is watching and caring about what Harry does” is the rule of life. That posting also gives you a brief review of how that worked out.

So now its time for me to address the AA Faithful, but if you are not one of those holy folks you can still read along too. Tell me AA Faithful person, which is it for you? Is God everything or is god nothing?

Let’s assume since you are the AA Faithful that it’s GOD is Everything. Well I have no problem with that. Let’s agree that all that happens is because GOD allows it or even wills it to be so.  Then we can conclude that all Harry has gone through in sobriety was the will of God. God wanted me to think how I think and see what I see so that I will remember all the injust things that irked me. See if things went well for me in sobriety, I wouldn’t be inclined to report these transgressions. Like you who are enjoying the fruits of your program, I wouldnt want to ”drill holes in the boat”. But God wanted me to write it out. He made me the writer I am for that reason. He gave me a head for details for this reason. My decision to create this blog was the will of God. God wants me to be the conscience of AA. God wants me to disclose to the world how the current generation of AAer’s are distorting what Bill and Bob wrote in the big book. I am your conscience AA Faithful. I will do for you what you cannot do for yourself. By God’s grace I will outline how you behave in meetings; your duplicity and your lip service to what is suppose to be kindness, compassion and humility.

God is ALL or he is nothing. There is nothing in there about whether you approve of it or not.

I got lied to about how working this program in ALL of my affairs would bring me a life worth living. You told me about your lives before and after and then told me this was all because of the 12 steps and GOD. You were lying. All you had in your present lives, you came to get from other methods and other reasons. But to improve your AA reputation, you lied to me about where these things came from. I set out on a fool’s errand, thinking that I would get a life worth living through the 12 steps, prayer and god. I did so because I was told that’s how you got your lives.

I am going to write about it because I am the best person for the job. By no means do I think I am the first or the only person who fell for the switch and bait. Fortunately for us suckers, I am the one guy who can articulate what it is you are doing. You screwed me, and I remember all of the details. And I get to write them out for others to read. So I can pass on my expereince, strength and hope. So those who come after me will have a shot at leading happy lives in sobriety.

But all is not lost AA Faithful. No need to be worried, there is something you can do to make it better. God has willed this blog be so, but that is not the end of the story. YOU can take action to make things better. You can stop doing those things mentioned in the blog that you are guilty of. You can call your sponsee’s and even your sponsor on it should they be guilty of those dishonest things I write about here.

You can choose as God has given you free will. Do you want only that I stop writing what I write? Or do you want what I write about to stop?

What would God have you do?

Sincerely
Harry A.
Still sober as of noon today