PO Box 1980

Since taking the first step into the program, I've come a long way about knowing and believing in a Higher Power. When I first became a member of AA, I was like any other atheist or agnostic who had had experiences with religion and didn't want anything to do with a God of family origin. How could there be a God when there was such hate and destruction in the world? I carried these doubts in the back of my mind. For fifteen years I opposed all the morals and values that I'd learned. Religion, church, and God were not at all a part of my life. Spirituality was shot to hell, to say the least. Oh, there were times when shame and guilt would overcome me and I'd repent, hoping for "salvation," only to slide back down again. By the time I entered the program of AA I didn't believe in any religious or spiritual aspect of God at all, and thought there was nothing that would change my mind. But there did come a change when I learned the difference between religion and spirituality.