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We Agnostics
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When I was drinking, I did not choose to search diligently for a Higher Power. I worshiped alcohol and on Sunday mornings I prayed to the porcelain shrine. When the pain of living in self-imposed ignorance became too great, I allowed myself to consider another way. I experienced a moment of clarity and was able to see that if I didn't radically change my life, I would die. I surrendered my will and worked to replace what had been a repressed belief with active faith. My relationship with God is still a personal matter, but it is a daily conscious activity.



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