THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT

Posted 7 January, 2008 in Daily Reflections

In ancient times material progress was painfully slow.  The spirit of modern scientific inquiry, research, and invention was almost unknown.

In the realm of the material, men’s minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas.  Some of the contemporaries of Columbus thought a round earth preposterous,  Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.

Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?

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We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.  To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.  It is open, we believe, to all men.

                                                                                 ALCOHOLICS ANONONYMOUS

                                                                                  1.  P. 51

                                                                                  2. P. 52

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