this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51

As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which, if I could have it, I would have chosen for myself from the beginning. It is through the continuous work of the Steps and the life in the Fellowship that Ive learned to see that there is truly a better way into which I am being guided. As I come to know more about God, I am able to trust His ways and His plans for the development of His character in me. Quickly or not so quickly, I grow toward His image and likeness.

At once, I became a partif only a tiny partof a cosmos. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225

When I first came to A.A., I decided that they were very nice peopleperhaps a little naive, a little too friendly, but basically decent, earnest people (with whom I had nothing in common). I saw them at meetings after all, that was where they existed. I shook hands with them and, when I went out the door, I forgot about them. Then one day my Higher Power, whom I did not then believe in, arranged to create a community project outside of A.A., but one which happened to involve many A.A. members. We worked together, I got to know them as people. I came to admire them, even to like them and, in spite of myself, to enjoy them. Their practice of the program in their daily livesnot just talk at meetings attracted me and I wanted what they had. Suddenly the they became we. I have not had a drink since.