Good evening, I hope everyone returning from the Nicaragua retreat had a good time. Sorry about the late e-mail but I got a little side tracked with Monday Night Football, my niners are down 14-0 but it's only the 2nd quarter... :-/ Anyways, back to business -- and what business!! Chapter 4 - We Agnostics is the best piece of spiritual information I've ever read. Growing up, I was educated in the religion of my ancestors and liked to tell myself that I believed in this God idea. Never would I have categorized myself as "agnostic", much less atheist, so for a long time I thought this chapter didn't apply to me. Having watched our human resources, as marshaled by the will, fail utterly; we came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Except I thought, in my twisted alcoholic mind, that I had already tried faith and found it wanting. If we were to truly ask for his protection ...
This blog is a compilation of commentaries about AA, alcoholism, sobriety and recovery. They were created as part of a weekly email series I send out to the AA Wed Night Riverside Men's Group in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica. We are a Men's Big Book and AA-related literature study group with the aim of expanding our knowledge and understanding of the principles set forth by the book Alcoholics Anonymous.