Get A Higher Power That Is Considerate
When I first started going to 12 step meetings some 20+ years ago, I heard that I could redefine my Higher Power. I was assured that I was able to make him anything that I wanted to.
This was a great thing to learn because at that time in my life, the God of my childhood wasn’t nice at all.
I won’t allege that I was instructed about a punishing God. But, I will that is what I learned. There were a lot of things that I learned that were dissimilar to what I was taught.
Most of this ‘education’ included matters concerning self esteem and self confidence.
So, when I learned that my Higher Power could be redefined, it was a huge relief. I was allowed to define my God as very Compassionate and that cared for me no matter what. I heard a person say that his God “knew what I was doing and loved me while I did it”.
I guess that a number of us have been taught “to act as if God is watching, because he is”. And, if this was the case, I was in deep difficulty as the result of some of the things I had done while growing up.
Now that I did not have to be concerned about being cast into the “depths of Hell” for what I had done in my youth, I was able to begin living a good life.
So, if you have a God that is not Kind, the best thing for you to do is to sit down and create a “designer God”.
I do not mean to be flippant about this but you need to have a God that is loving if you are going to live a good life.
We don’t need to be “looking over our shoulder” to make sure that our “punishing God” is not breathing down our neck.
Life is too short to be endured running from a God of our parents. It is time to define a God for you that is caring and loving.
I have heard it said that our only problem in life is our “perceived separation from God”. That separation is very easy to imagine if the God of your understanding is punishing and mean.
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