Healing is only the beginning. When you are completely healed of everything wrong in your life - your body, your business, difficulties in personal relationships, obvious faults in your own character - you will not have finished your work. Your real work will only be commencing.
Your real work is to show and experience the glory of God, to build a spiritual consciousness, "the house magnifical". Conscious fear will have gone, and your whole world will be different. The physical world will be different because it will be clothes in a new glory - "the light that never was on sea or land". Then people will be different because you will be beginning to know their real selves instead of nearly the outer shell, and, of course, everyone will notice that you are different too.
This is not to say that healing is unimportant - it has to proceed the building. Let us endeavor to get our own healing completed as soon as possible in order to help the world that is needing it so much. Bless the Lord... who healeth all diseases...who crowneth thee with loving kindness... Psalm 103 2-4
The thing that jumps out at me is how different the first paragraph is from the teachings in AA. Now I am sure there will be AA members who try and align the message of recovery with this passage. In my experience, this is far from what AA teaches. The message above calls for total healing. AA in my experience does not. In fact they claim to be men who have lost their legs they never grow new ones. I will say that there are components of AA's governing text - the Big Book that are in total conflict with my experience in the program . Here's a part from AA's Vision for You chapter with my comments in each section:
Our book is meant to be suggestive only. Really? Suggestive? How does this statement match with the "Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path part of chapter 5? We realize we know only a little. Really? We know only a little? How does this statement match with the attitude AA members have about AA is the only way for drunks to get and maintain sobriety? In addition this statement appears to align with the statement in the book about contempt prior to investigation, but most AA members are at odds with anything that questions AA principles. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. If this is true, how is it then that the basic text off AA has not changed since its initial publication? Hasn't anything else been revealed? And if something is revealed to a member that leads him or her to an alternate path, they are met with harsh criticism and told their mind cannot be trusted. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. Again, what if the answers that come in your morning meditation differ from AA's religion? What if the answer that comes to you is that God's grace is sufficient for you and that AA is full of negative thought about the individual and teaches its members to accept total defeat in this area of their lives? and See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. This is almost laughable. It really should read Abandon yourself to God as you understand God provided God doesn't reveal to you that you don't need AA. If that happens you are deceiving yourself and your mind cannot be trusted because you are defective. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. This is also NOT the mentality within AA. It should read give freely of what you find as long as it doesn't deviate from our message of permanent powerlessness over alcohol or any other of the "you are a cripple teachings. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
May God bless you and keep you—until then.
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