The Twelve Steps Revisited/Step 7

SOMETIMES the mere reading of Step Seven gives me a deeply excited, tingling feeling. I think of those moments--and what AA who has been around for a time has not known them, or something like them?--when I felt I was actually in touch with the Higher Power as I understood Him. I think of the even more vivid experiences of some of my AA colleagues. And I experience a thrill, as new and fresh each time it comes as it was the first time I felt it, that the very source of the universe can be directly approached--not just by saints, geniuses and biblical characters, but by miserable self-defeating drunks and ex-drunks, capable at any moment of reverting, like myself.