A big thank you to those who attended this past Saturday’s Steps Cycle. It was a pleasure to get together for this emotional and spiritual tune-up. If you missed it and would like to attend one in the future, next one will happen in March.
The Holiday Schedule (+Special Workshop Dec. 24th and 31st)
This January our Grief Group will be celebrating three years. Thank you for your presence in these practices, and for supporting the meeting with your shares, your service, and your friendship. It’s a joy to fellow travel with you as we learn more about ourselves, learn how to be with difficult feelings, and learn how to co-create loving-kind community.
This year Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve fall on a Sunday. Both Sunday meetings will be available for those who wish to attend. At 8:00am PST we’ll be strengthening our relationship with our Higher Power and at the 10:00am meeting we’ll be doing a special workshop on Lovability (Knowing How to Love and Be Loved).
I believe we learn how to love when we are loved well. The BRB states: With help and support, we learn what it means to be a Loving Parent to ourselves. (BRB, Chapter 8)
In our ACA community we have the support of one another, but I believe there is more support some of us might not be utilizing – the support of our Higher Power.
This past weekend, at this Saturday’s Steps Cycle and the Sunday Grief Group, I heard from several fellows about their resistance to or distrust of their ability to consciously connect with their Higher Power. I heard some fellows say they have a real disdain for the word God. If this feels true to you, may I help?
Becoming our own Loving Parent means that many of us come to believe that our Higher Power is our actual parent.
Our Higher Power is the parent who gives us unconditional love and the way out of confusion and self-abuse.
In Chapter 8 of the Big Red Book, our literature states two important ideas: our inner child is the gateway to our Higher Power and our Higher Power is the actual soul parent who never abandons us.
Inside each of us are three inner child archetypes: the wounded inner child; the defiant inner child; the Divine inner child, the part of us connected to life, to joy and creativity, delight and wonder...and original love. For too many of us, this part has been shut down just as our other inner children have been exiled. I would like to create space to come together on the subject of Direct Experience of a Higher Power.
If you would be interested in joining such a meeting, please reply to this email. I’d like to know if others are interested in a meetup on this topic. It would be scheduled on a Saturday at 10:00am PST.
To those who do have a relationship with their Higher Power, please come and support our discussion. Everyone is welcome. Thanks again.
So wonderful to receive your email - made my heart smile. I would be interested in the new Saturday meeting. Sending heartfelt gratitude my friend ...