On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:29:39 GMT, "rosie readandpost"
<readandpost@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote:

>
>> One of the most religious women I know in AA talks of "God" and
>> "Christianity" and "Holy Spirit" etc. Yet to return home from New
>> Zealand she needed Valium. Sounds like she doesn't actually trust her
>> concept of God to keep anxiety at bay.
>

> you said RELIGIOUS, not SPIRITUAL....................there is a big difference!

Yes, I know, and meant, exactly what I said

>BM,
>loving and trusting in your HP and treating an ANXIETY disorder are not mutually exclusive.

Given that anxiety is fear and the Steps are specifically to resolve
fear through developing trust in a Higher Power, how do you reach such
a conclusion for anyone successfully recovering from addiction with
the Steps?

Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood him.

Step 11 does not say: Sought through prayer and medication to improve
our conscious contact with God as we understood him...

>(although there ARE better drugs than valium for this, but you would be just as critical of those also!

You have no clue what I would or wouldn't be critical of.

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Blue Moon