We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn't do it. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate God's omnipotence.
- ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 133
For years I believed in a punishing God and blamed God for my misery. I have learned that I must lay down the "weapons" of self in order to pick up the "tools" of the A.A. program. I do not struggle with the program because it is a gift. If I sometimes keep on struggling, it is because I'm still hanging onto my old ideas and " . . . the results are nil."
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