The best we can do is to continue seeking guidance while following the highest principles in our program. We can never really determine how any chain of events will play out. Although this appears to be chance or coincidence, very important outcomes often develop from simple happenings, maybe just from meeting someone on the street. What we’re likely to find instead is that over time, a number of unrelated events come together for a good purpose. Spiritual guidance usually doesn’t come as we think it should.
We refused to learn that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.ĭoes guidance from our Higher Power always come through? We must believe that it does, even when we don’t seem to receive a visible answer. We failed to see that, though adult in years, we were still behaving childishly, trying to turn everybody-friends, wives, husbands, even the world itself-into protective parents. The people we most loved often pushed us aside or perhaps deserted us entirely. When we insisted, like infants, that people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result was unfortunate. Neither Dependence nor Self-Sufficiency, p.265 I pray that I may try to follow my conscience and do what seems right today. I pray that today I may try to follow the inner pressure of God’s leading. Wait quietly until you have an inner urge, a leading, a feeling that a thing is right, a pressure on your will by the spirit of God. Take the events of today as part of God’s planning and ordering. In all decisions to be made today, yield to the gentle pressure of your conscience. In this time of quiet meditation, follow the pressure of the Lord’s leading. Now will I follow it with all I have, with all I can give, with all my might, with all my life? Am I going to let A.A. When I am sure, I should bet my life on A.A. and to the Higher Power? Have I gotten over being sick inside? Am I still wandering mentally or am I “on the beam?” I can face anything, if I am sure I am on the way. Have I ceased being inwardly defeated, at war with myself? Have I given myself freely to A.A. The best I can do-and it sounds easier than it is to put into practice-is to listen, share personal experience, and pray for others. But allowing others the right to be wrong reaps its own benefits. When trying to help a fellow alcoholic, I’ve given in to an impulse to give advice, and perhaps that’s inevitable. You may spoil your chance of being helpful if you do.” “When working with a man and his family, you should take care not to participate in their quarrels.
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