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I have a very good friend who has well over 30 years of sobriety. The =
other day he ran across an old notebook that he had use as a journal in =
earlier days. The following is what it said:
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The thing that I've wanted my whole life is an awareness of the presence =
of God in my life. I believe that it is the same experience that saints =
and mystic have sought and found.
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I believe that the one thing that has prevented me from having the very =
same experience is the idea that God cannot be experienced now or at =
this moment, but must be experienced at some other time than now.
I now believe that when it d comes to his presence, a later time does =
not exist. There is no such time, and there is no such God. In the Big =
Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. It says; "There is one with all power, may =
you find him now." God say: "I am, I am" Christ says he will never leave =
us. God doesn't say; he will be later, or He was. He says I am. This =
says to me He Is. Only in the present.
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The Big Book doesn't say you will find him after you have done a lot of =
stuff, .. gotten 6 month or one year of sobriety or read the book all =
the way through, or been secretary of a meeting or sponsored X number of =
people, etc, etc.
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So at what ever moment you think you may have found God, It will be NOW =
at that moment. End
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One of the reasons I think the idea of one day at a time; really one =
moment at a time, is so im****tant: is that God only exist in the =
presence. The term Eternal God. Means the God who is forever present.
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May you find HIM Now!
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such time, and there is no such God. <B><I>In the</I></B> Big Book =
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size=3D3>The Big Book doesn=92t say you will find him after you have =
done a lot of=20
stuff, .. gotten 6 month or one year <B><I>of sobriety </I></B>or read =
the book=20
all the way through, or been secretary of a meeting or sponsored X =
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people, etc, etc.</FONT></P>
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really one moment at a time, is so im****tant: is that God only exist in =
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presence. The term <B>Eternal God. Means the God who is forever=20
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