I love this short poem my friend Damon shared with me yesterday. I also love the Big Book’s variety in describing a Higher Power … unsuspected inner resource’ ( BBp.567/568) , ‘a position of neutrality’ (BB p.85)… even as ‘a new found Friend (BB p.13). Allen Berger in his writing and talks has shared the simple possibility that with pause and fit spiritual condition we learn how ‘the best in me can lead the rest in me’.
Damon’s poem captures ‘a new freedom and new happiness’ (BB p.83) by using the HOW of practicing these principles in the constant of whatever life presents …what Victor Frankl describes this way:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
I’ve also added this poem to the ‘Recovery Poems’ section of the gugogs.org website. – Bruce M.
