Be Still And Listen: "The Tune Will Come to You at Last"

This blog is sort of a sequel to the book I wrote, Corking the Bottle: A Day-by Day Guide to a Sober Life (https://covenantbooks.com/books/?book=corking-the-bottle), published last summer. The book started as a series of daily blog posts I wrote during the first few years of my sobriety. The purpose is to lead, I hope, someone -- anyone -- to a new and improved life.

Here is a sample, written on Day 19 of my sobriety:

"I grew up as part of a family active in church. There, people told me what to believe. And I did believe. But later, in my adult life, I became disillusioned with formal religion as it was taught to me. In my community relations job, I became painfully aware of basic needs being unmet. It seemed churches didn’t know or else didn’t care about the people living all around them who were struggling to be healthy families. I no longer felt religious, but I still believed in God. What’s up with that?

"It wasn’t until I got into AA that I learned religion and spirituality are different. I can be spiritual: love God, pray, seek to do God’s will, and don’t judge others’ spirituality. I believe there is one God, but how I perceive him is up to me. We choose our own higher power. I had never seen spirituality from this perspective.

"Where you find your higher power doesn’t matter. Just find it!

"One of my favorite books is Awakening in Time by Jacquelyn Small. She writes, 'When we honor the higher power’s principles of love -- of truth, goodness, and beauty -- we are using our energy as a creative positive force, and we feel serene. When we violate its laws of love and wisdom which are in fact our nature, we feel isolated, heavy, uninspired, and out of sorts.... In order to connect with our higher power, we simply need to be still and listen. Our intuition already knows the sound of its voice.'”