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Where does the spirit live?

Inside or outside

Things remembered, made things,

Things unmade.

∼Seamus Heaney

We pray in the morning to turn our will over to the God of our understanding. But if we take our will back, where can the Spirit of God live? We need to align our will to that of our Higher Power’s, that is, the Spirit of God manifested within us. When we take back control of our will, the Spirit has no place to express Itself. Our sponsors tell us to pray and meditate in order to hear the voice of the Spirit that dwells within. We cannot take for granted that our Higher Power is working within us if we do not ask each day for that to happen. When we search for God, we turn to where the Spirit lives, and come to know that it lives within and works throughout us.

I allow the Spirit of God,

as I understand the Spirit, to

manifest in and through me.

[W]e are developing a habit of self-examination, meditation and prayer that allows us to continue to grow in recovery and trusting God. Our spirit is awakened to the reality of God's abiding presence.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 77