Dear Grapevine

I WAS not pleased with the story "Without a Higher Power" (January 2010). As the Big Book States, we have no defense against that first drink, but we do have "a daily reprieve contingent upon the maintenance of our spiritual condition." Why would I need a spiritual condition." Why would I need a spiritual condition, or maintain it, if it weren't associated with a power greater than myself? The part about the sponsor saying that what the author was doing was obviously working, so let's not try to fix it, is absolutely ludicrous. If there is one who is walking in my midst with this limited idea of AA, I will be on the lookout to work with him and hopefully get him back on this road we are trudging of happy destiny.