When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
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My depression deepened unbearably, and finally it seemed to me as though I were at the very bottom of the pit. For the moment, the last vestige of my proud obstinacy was crushed. All at once I found myself crying out, "If there is a God, let Him show Himself! I am ready to do anything, anything!"
Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. It seemed to me, in the mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consiciousness. All about me and through me there was a wonderful feeling of Presence, and I thought to myself, "So this is the god of the preachers!"
Alcoholics Anonymous p. 100 A.A. Comes Of Age. p. 63
