String Of Pearls: 121 Trust and Surrender
-Faith seems to me to be the result of seeing change in myself and in others. That’s why it is good for me to go to some of the same meetings each week and share often. If I do that, I can hear of others growth and they can hear mine.
-Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God. So says Paul in Romans. The word of God I have heard in meetings has brought faith to me.
- Humility comes to me as I accept my limitations. Humiliation has come to me in the situations where my very person hood is attacked.
-The primary limitation that I need to accept daily, is that I can not deal with life on earth by myself.
-A newcomer to my program asked me how I began the journey toward surrender to God. I responded with a grin and said, “I tried everything I could think of to avoid trusting my Higher Power. When I ran out of things to try I was at the point of of either starting to learn to surrender or to die. Being the bright sort of fellow I am I began my life of growing surrender.
-Probably, my most intimidating barrier to trust was the inability to believe God could care about anyone as messed up as me.
-My first prayer of surrender was, “God, if you can do anything with this mess you are welcome to it.” To my utter surprise, She took me into her arms like I was a priceless little child.
-One thing that has helped me accept the love of my Higher Power was to think of Her as a woman. That idea of my Higher Power as a woman has been powerfully reinforced by the loving, nearly adoring, look in the eyes of the women in the rooms. I am thinking right now of a particular young women named Lisa I talked to at a meeting last Sunday. She said “Hi Mister George.”
I was shocked at her using the title Mister and I guess she noticed. Then she said “You deserve to have me call you Mister because you have helped me so much”. I was touched by her words but the tenderness in her eyes was the thing that was so healing.
-God has trusted the entire earth to mankind’s care. I don’t think we are not doing all that great a job. Science is warning us that we need to shape up. I wish I had the faith in God that She has in us.