ESSAY February 2025 - My Higher Power is No Different Than Yours - Sex Fellows - Anonymous, USA

This member’s understanding of God may be unique to him, but he still strives to live our common Twelve Step principles

When I first came into the Program, I had a problem with the italicized qualifier on God, “as we understood Him” (SA, 208). Now I see it as the best idea of the Twelve Steps.

My problem was, being very devout in the religion I was raised in, I was sure that God was God, He didn’t change according to how someone understood Him, and my understanding happened to be the correct one. I had no concept of the Set Aside Prayer or the principle of surrender at that time.