Today's Thought - August

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August 27

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

~Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

In their wisdom, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous struggled with how to express the spirituality at the core of the program. They landed on the phrase “God as we understood Him.” That phrase is another way to express the idea of God as a mirror. Even those who try to define God will find that words cannot adequately describe the ultimate creator; instead, they place false limits on God.

When we face God, we don’t see ourselves as we do in a mirror, but we see beyond ourselves. God provides us with a pathway out of our willful ego-based mind and expands our understanding as participants in the universe of creation. The awe and reverence and meaning of our spiritual lives call us to align ourselves with something far beyond our immediate pleasure and self-satisfying will.

Today, I am grateful for the spiritual awakening that this program gives me.

Today's reading is from the book Stepping Stones, More Daily Meditations for Men