God as I Understand Him

FOR MANY PEOPLE, I suspect, the words "God as we understood Him" seem as substantial as a granite mountain from a distance, but prove as amorphous and insubstantial as a cumulus cloud when reached. When we attempt to take the Third Step--to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this conceptualized Being--we find that the vague abstractions to which we have given lip service are no longer of use. And for many of us, this Step, which should be the gateway to a new and better way of life, becomes instead an insurmountable barrier before which we quail and retreat.