Of Our Understanding

In working the 12 steps, clues about the nature of our Higher Power are perhaps the primary factor in determining our spiritual path.

Many of us have found that the spiritual path of our childhood doesn't mesh with the truths we are finding within the steps.

For instance, if we sense that God is vast and open, and the spirituality we have been exposed to in the past suggests that God was confined and confining, we're probably not going to return to our earlier path.

If we sense that our God cares in a very personal and individual way about each of us, a belief system that presents a distant, unknowable, alien force may not work for us.

(NA Step Working Guide page 108)