PREPARING THE GROUNDWORK -
"...we ask a loving God [or H.P.]* to remove our impatience, our intolerance, our dishonesty ... . We can actually ask our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings in good faith, knowing that it will happen in God's time. This faith can transcend our own ideas of what we need or think we should have." (It Works, How & Why, p. 52)
PRACTICING WHAT WE PREACH -
"So we clean
house with the fam-
ily, asking each morn-
ing in meditation that our
Creator show us the way of
patience, tolerance, kind-
liness and love. The spir-
itual life is not a theory.
WE HAVE TO LIVE
IT." (The Big Book,
p. 83)
"Do not let your
deeds belie your
words, lest when you
speak in church some-
one may say to him-
self, 'Why do you
not practice what
you preach?'"
- Saint Jerome (347 AD - 419 AD) Bible translator
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself. Like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.
