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title: God Comes Alive
description: The Divine comes alive for us as we work through the twelve steps.
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# [God Comes Alive](https://blog.theretreat.org/god-comes-alive)

 Written by [Dick Rice](https://blog.theretreat.org/author/dick-rice) | Mar 10, 2016 4:00:00 PM

Recently in my home group, thanks to a brother’s presentation on the 7th step, I had the awareness of how **the Divine comes alive for us as we work through the steps**. We come into the community and land on the first step spiritually bankrupt and, for all intents and purposes, functioning atheists. As we climb to the second step, **we at least acknowledge our wrongdoing** to this Divine Power. On the third step **we decide to turn ourselves over to a Higher Power**, but only to a caring God, a God who is there for us.

By the 5th step we are willing to acknowledge our wrongdoing to this Divine Power, **trusting we will not be shamed** or, worse, damned.  We and God are making progress. With step 6 we become willing to have God work in our lives and we actively **enlist God in our conversion** in step 7. Steps 8, 9, and 10 make no mention of God, but God makes a grand re-entrance with step 11 as we commit to “conscious contact” with this One who obviously has initiated the contact and wants to sustain it. 

In a sense, all we were doing was [climbing the steps](https://blog.theretreat.org/keeping-the-twelve-steps-at-the-forefront-during-these-times-of-change-in-the-addiction-recovery-field), and we discover that our Higher Power was as well. This Higher Power manifests Him/Her self however the Power wishes. The crucial element is CARE – the only God worth worshipping is a **God who aches with us, feels with us, laughs and cries with us**, and gives us the power to live the one glorious awake and recovering life that is ours.

 

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