November 1999
Microbursts of Joy
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <emphasis type="underline">as we understood Him</emphasis>, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
When I was newly sober and read for the first time about Bill W.'s spiritual experience while he was in the hospital for detox, I was in awe. (See the Big Book, p. 13-14.) I thought then, and many times since, that both our founders had to have been touched by God to start such a unique method of recovery for what had previously been an incurable disease.
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