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I have a very good friend who has well over 30 years of sobriety. The other day he ran across an old notebook that he had use as a journal in earlier days. The following is what it said:

The thing that I’ve wanted my whole life is an awareness of the presence of God in my life. I believe that it is the same experience that saints and mystic have sought and found.

I believe that the one thing that has prevented me from having the very same experience is the idea that God cannot be experienced now or at this moment, but must be experienced at some other time than now.

  I now believe that when it d comes to his presence,  a later time does not exist. There is no such time, and there is no such God. In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. It says; “There is one with all power, may you find him now.” God say: “I am, I am” Christ says he will never leave us. God doesn’t say; he will be later, or He was. He says I am. This says to me He Is. Only in the present.

The Big Book doesn’t say you will find him after you have done a lot of stuff, .. gotten 6 month or one year of sobriety or read the book all the way through, or been secretary of a meeting or sponsored X number of people, etc, etc.

So at what ever moment you think you may have found God, It will be NOW at that moment.     End

One of the reasons I think the idea of one day at a time; really one moment at a time, is so important: is that God only exist in the presence. The term Eternal God. Means the God who is forever present.

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