An agnostic member (at his sponsor’s suggestion) went on a retreat to see what it might hold for him. There he came to believe there was an order to the universe. He slowly began to believe in Good Orderly Direction, as he witnessed it all around him in nature.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
— Herman Hesse
To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.
— Page 46 Alcoholics Anonymous
