The second step principle will always be my favorite, and the reasons why are fairly obvious. It connotes a message  that anyone, including stubborn alcoholics like myself, can understand. This is what it says: "Humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is a reassurance that God can restore us to some form of sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to him. Amen...

Yes I personally never had a problem with your "own conception" of God as you understood God.(even though I have my own personal faith beliefs)....but I also always understood it to be under the guidelines of being loving and caring(2nd Tradition,3rd Step etc)If a person finds something that WE may consider not loving and caring or how that could be(doorknob,bedpost,evil demon) then so be it, as it is stated when we are willing to believe WE are well on our way.......   It is a process(Came to believe) not an event.... It is our 3rd Step where "we make a decision" and the principles of honesty ,open mindedness, willingness,faith ,hope etc really move the process along.... Through my journey of recovery I have seen(in many others) and been apart of many transformations of belief(my own same God since childhood but a complete different relationship)    I am never surprised at some of the things I have heard and hear at meetings..Who's your Daddy " is definitely ear perking though ...thanks for the share............ Have a blessed and productive day.....

I think chapter four of the Big Book....We Agnostics...Is one of the finest pieces of spritual writing I've ever seen. I like this part from pgs 54 - 55.

We found, too, that we had been worshippers. What a state of mental goose-flesh that used to bring on! Had we not variously worshipped people, sentiment, things, money, and ourselves? And then, with a better motive, had we not worshipfully beheld the sunset, the sea, or a flower? Who of us had not loved something or somebody? How much did these feelings, these loves, these worships, have to do with pure reason? Little or nothing, we saw at last. Were not these things the tissue out of which our lives were constructed? Did not these feelings, after all, determine the course of our existence? It was impossible to say we had no capacity for faith, or love, or worship. In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.

Imagine life without faith! Were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life. But we believed in life - of course we did. We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was. Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of nothingness? Of course we couldn't. The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that. At least, so the chemist said.

Hence, we saw that reason isn't everything. Neither is reason, as most of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds. What about people who proved that man could never fly?

Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems. They said God made these things possible, and we only smiled. We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn't true.

Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.

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That's a good one. What a great chapter that is. I'm doing a Big Book workshop with a guy that really knows his stuff and we just finished it last week. Start How It Works this afternoon....I can"t get enough of that book. You have to wonder Who was holding the pen when they put that on paper.