September 22, 2024 – A

AA proposes: "Acceptance is the answer
to all of my problems today."

I think it is "Growing Up."

All of my problems are generated
by the refusal of everyone, including me,
to grow up.

If my parents had been growing up,
consciously, intentionally, deliberately,
all of their life
what a difference that would have made
in my life.

The same goes for their parents,
and their parents...

Everyone was blaming something else 
for all of their problems.
No one was squaring up to their need
to grow up,
face what needed to be faced
and do what needed to be done about it
with their own personal gifts
that were always at their disposal.

And I think the culprit at the bottom 
of it all was/is bad religion.
And all religion is bad religion.

Religion teaches that we are evil,
worthless, no count, no good
and that there is nothing we can do about it.
How's that for the basis for terminal immaturity?

Of course, growing up
would mean the end of religion as we know it,
and probably the end of religion of any variety.

When we become the responsible agent for our life,
who needs a god to pray to for blessings 
and deliverance and life everlasting?

And that would upend the world as it has come to be.

Which means that it is up to us
to walk away from religion
and take up sitting looking out the window,
reflecting on the current state of our affairs,
and what we need to do what needs to be done
about it.

Start with stopping all our thinking
about everything that prevents us from 
seeing/doing what needs to be done
about the current state of our affairs.

What we spend our time thinking about
keeps us from thinking about
what we need to think about
to do what needs to be done.

We spend out time with addiction,
diversion, distraction, denial,
projection, delusion, illusion,
escape, evasion, avoidance...

Anything to keep from growing up
and doing what needs to be done
about things as they are.

Like rejecting "that old time religion."