You see it is all a matter of semantics at this point. Some people like my father call it God; whether you refer to your higher power as God, the Indian God Ganesh, Allah, The Great Spirit, Vishnu, Christ, Jehovah, El Shaddai, The Universe, Universal Intelligence, The Great Artificer, the Hopi God Tawa, Nature, or any other name by that which you call the Great Being, it doesn't matter. Each of us has a personal relationship with it and no one should stand in judgment. I respect my father and his relationship with God. It was in his core, just as my own relationship with Nature or Science or Universal Intelligence is in my core. When I allowed myself to believe in a Power greater then myself, I allowed myself to know that I could get better. Now don’t get me wrong, this all took years of hard work and I had to be honest with myself about all of my actions that got me to the awful place that I was, but I had FAITH. It was that faith in something greater then me that saved my life and I am happy to say that I have not touched a drink in almost four years!
