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The God Angle.

The subtitle is Robbie R's Last Dedication
to the God of His Understanding.
Published by The God Angle Committee in 1978.
This book is similar to the 24 hour book in
that it has a reading for each day of the year.
Each reading begins with a bible passage
and then a short commentary. The preface
states that the book is meant improve the readers

...conscience contact with God.

from yahoo aa history group
The God Angle was written as Robbie R's Last
Dedication to the God of His Understanding.
Published by the God Angle Committee in 1978.
Copyright 1978, Mrs. T. W. Robinson, details
of her address (at that time) are in the book
but I am not prepared to include such inform-
ation here. Yes it is a daily read January 1
to December 31.

I was given a copy by Wayne P of Kansas at
Colorado Springs in 1979. Wayne P was a great
friend of Robbie R and Wesley Parrish and
many other local, national & international
pioneers, etc.

Kind Regards, John R Brisbane Australia.

From Jerry L aa achives Las Vegas NV

Hi...Jerry Logsdon here. I received the book
THE GOD ANGLE from Paul T. as he tells you
in his message. I remember calling the Intergroup Office
in Alexandria, Virginia and talking to the employee
there. He told me the whole history of the book.

 

aa history lovers may 16 09

My sponsor's sponsor came into a copy of "The God Angle" in his early sobriety.
He had always favored it and thought it should be in circulation, again. I have
made numerous attempts to contact Mrs. T. W. Robinson, Alexandria, VA who had
the copyright to the volume. I have also attempted to contact the central and
archive's offices and e-mail addresses of the Virginia area, to no avail, to
find the copyright holder(s) of the book.

If anyone has any information concerning this book, the whereabouts of any
surving family of the author, Robbie Robinson, the author's date of birth and
death or the original date of the book's publishing and when it was written,
please contact me at:

Mike Kane

(michaelvkane at hotmail.com)
480-287-0091

The God Angle/Meditation Book
I don't know where to post this but this book someone in the program has. It is a meditation book someone from the program did and it seems as if there is no history of this book, not even with the author. We have even called looking for someone who might know something. Here is the reading for today but I really would like to know if anyone has seen or heard of this book?
June 7th


When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
PSALMS 27:10

Unfortunately this did not happen to me. My mother’s life would have been prolonged had she done so. As it was, my drinking was definitely a contributing cause to her death.
I do know many persons in AA whose parents did turn them from their doors in their desperate futility. I have known many such cases where God has intervened and through His Infinite Love and Patience has restored these problem children and has made them valuable assets to their communities and their families.
June 8th

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.
MATTHEW 10:39

There are those who have come through our doors who have been beaten to the very brink of death. They obtain sobriety through our simple program.
They have found what they came for and are content. They want no “God Stuff”. They have many and varied social contacts so they do not need our Group therapy. They have found the “gimmick” so they no longer need attend meetings. Their new-found sobriety has opened up a host of other interests and activities; they have no time for AA.
You, like I, have probably attended their funerals.
You have also seen those who literally threw their entire life into AA and received a much larger life in return.
June 9th


A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. PROVERBS 15:1


I once knew a little old lady whom I never heard raise her voice to her family or anyone else, yet she ruled her little world as effectively as any tyrant that ever lived.
As a kid I remember her as being called “the iron fist in the velvet glove.”
She had a keen smile, a strong will but a soft voice and a disarming smile. She always had her way in every situation.
I should have learned a lot from her but instead I let my whiskey do my sounding-off for me and I invariably lost every argument
June 10th


And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
2ND CORINTHIANS 12:15


This, in my opinion, is AA in operation; it is AA in spirit, it is Christ as I know him.
AA does demand that you spend and be spent. Sobriety means all to us and we should be willing to give our all to maintain that sobriety.
Your efforts will frequently be misunderstood and unappreciated but so was Christ.
It is the work we do without the expectations of rewarding appreciation, that rewards us the most.
June 11th


For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. JAMES 2:26

Our Faith in the Program becomes a vital force only when it leaves the sphere of contemplative theory and becomes a driving force in all our personal affairs.
It is well to speculate on our philosophy of Life; it is better to make it an integral part of our every day living.
We do not need devout thinkers near as much as we need devout workers
June 12th


For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? MARK 8:36


Let’s face facts.
What do you want out of life? Power, prestige, wealth, influence, pleasure or long life?
Power is gained by selfish preferment. It stifles both love and affection.
Prestige makes a slave of all who get it. It is fickle and of short duration.
Wealth will not buy your life’s cravings. It will not buy the real life necessities. If it did, the wealthy would live longer.
Influence is only purchased at the price of selling some part of your self.
Pleasure is an entirely relative matter. The more you have, the more you need to satisfy your demands.
Long life is only a blessing if it has a happy present and a promising future; otherwise it is composed of regrets, pains and fears of impending death.
June 13th


Behold. I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him and he with Me. REVELATIONS 3:20


Alkys, Take Heed. God, through this Program is knocking at your door. You must open your ears to hear and you, only, can open the door.
He will not force you to listen nor will He kick your door in. It’s strictly up to you.
The voice will not be heard with the outer ear. The voice is a still, small voice. The Soul alone is sufficiently tuned to hear it, The door is not the door of your abode, it is the door to your heart, for does it not say “I will come into him”, not unto him?
June 14th


For I tell you, that many Prophets and Kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. LUKE 10:24


Unique is the position of our Membership. Learned men of Science, Dedicated servants of God, persons who have devoted their adult life to the study of the workings of the human mind, body and emotions have but in rare instances seen what we have seen or heard what we have heard.
That this gift should have been given to the recovered drunk just doesn’t make sense and thereby is revealed the wisdom of God. Any approach to the practicing alcoholic which made sense would not make sense to his confused mind.
God knew that no force could penetrate the alcoholic personality except another alcoholic personality.
June 15th


Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
2ND CHRONICLES 20:15!

In our attempts to carry the Message of Recovery we are constantly faced with lack of co-operation, misunderstanding, ridicule, setbacks, failures, discouragements and heartbreaks.
Few of us would have the temerity to face these odds with our feeble resources except that we feel, consciously or subconsciously, that the battle is not ours, but God’s.
Armed with this knowledge we can face these obstructions with confidence and unafraid.
If it is God’s battle and He is in full command, what have we to fear?
All we have to do is to continue fighting and we Alkys are a proficient and experienced band of battlers.
June 16th


I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hath revealed them unto babes. MATTHEW 11:25


Matthew may not have been talking about us ex-drunks, but for this purpose I am.
I, too, thank God that He hid this thing from the wise and prudent and revealed it to us simple Alcoholics.
Otherwise, we might have acquired sobriety alone and thereby been denied a stimulating purpose in our lives.
We might have simply gotten dried out without the advantage of getting a life-giving spiritual concept.
If it had been revealed to the wise and prudent, they would have put it up in capsule form and patented it.
June 17th


The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility. PROVERBS 15:23


As stated before in this series of articles, it is my opinion that Fear of the Lord, in the Biblical sense, means awe, reverence and obedience to the Lord.
Certainly our own experiences prove to us that only when we arrived at a state of mind where we admitted to a power greater than ourselves and followed a procedure of reverence and obedience to His Holy Laws, were we able to make any progress in our Alcoholic Problem.
By following this procedure, we became subservient to His Will and thereby acquired a semblance of humility.
Then and then only did success crowd our efforts and honour became our reward.
June 18th


Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the Faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Making an examination of your Faith is an important part of your Moral Inventory.
We Alcoholics were so mixed up that we did not know what we did believe.
AA admonished us to practice “Easy does it”. That it was not necessary to have any faith in the fact that the Program would work for you if you made the honest and sincere effort necessary.
It told us to start living “right” as we understood “right” and that very gradually and imperceptibly you would automatically cease to be a reprobate and that Faith in God would be a most natural consequence.
June 19th




But the tongue con no man tame; it is unruly, evil, full of deadly poison. JAMES 3:7



No man can control his tongue unless he is possessed of an overpowering love.

If our hearts and minds are filled with Love, there will be no room for any other emotion.

If our tongue is controlled by Love, then it is controlled by God, for God is love.

No longer then can it be evil and deadly. It becomes an instrument of Truth, Compassion, Beauty.

IF I find myself unable to control my tongue, it is because I have not fully turned my life and will over to the care of God as I understand Him.

The venom in an unruly tongue is more deadly to its possessor than to the person against whom it is directed.
June 20th


How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him.

1st Kings 18:21

This puts it straight up to you. Is God your God or is the Bottle?

You cannot serve two Masters. You can't drink and also remain sober.

Make your choice, buddy, but when you have made it then stick to it.

If you want AA in all its phases, then come and get it. We have plenty to spare. If you want to drink, then go to it, but stay strictly away from AA. AA won't help you in this respect and you won't help us a dammed bit.

I personally believe that God looks with greater favor upon a drunk who dies drunk than He does upon a guy who is only trying to fool himself or someone else.

Get AA or Get OUT. We will surely spoil your drinking.
 
June 22nd




For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. PSALMS 49:17




Regardless of our individual beliefs, one of three things will happen to us after we die. We die and stay dead through all eternity; or our Souls stand judgment and we face eternal joy or eternal torment as our actions in this life justify; or else we are reborn again into this world or some other of which we know not, to carry on our predestined purpose strengthened by the experiences of this life.

Worldly possessions would be useless in any of these events Neither will your glory descend after you nor would it be of value to you if it did. If, however, your life has been patterned after the example of the most Glorious Man that ever lived, then will your life, too, be glorious and your glory will remain in this world to make its influence felt on generations yet unborn.
                                                     June 23



For by thy words thou shalt be justified, by thy words thou shalt be
condemned. MATTHEW 12:17



When you were drinking, your big mouth got you in a mess of trouble, in all probability, and now that you are sober it can still do the same thing.

Most people only know you by your own utterances. It takes close association and a lot of time to really know an individual.

Even if you live the life of a saint, yet continue to cuss the devil, those who know you only casually will think of you as a devil.

Your words are most important in AA. The new man coming into our ranks is looking for something better than what he was accustomed to, but if your words indicate that your mind is still in the gutter he will profit little from your example.

Bar-room language is one of the things that disgusted him with his old life and now he is looking to you for a better way.
June 24th




All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirit. PROVERBS 16:2



I should guard myself constantly against self deception. I am by nature a buck-passer and an alibi artist.

Regardless of what I do or fail to do, I can still rationalize and excuse myself.

The Lord weigheth
the Spirit, however, not the action itself.

Even when I do something good, if I do it grudgingly or complainingly, the Lord will surely disapprove.

If I do something bad, in spite of my good intentions, the Lord will understand and forgive, I feel sure.

Our ways were clean in our eyes when we were drinking, yet we now know the mental and moral filth of which we were guilty. Not only the Lord, but we ourselves, need weigh our spirit.
June 25th



For if righteousness come by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain.
GALATIANS 2:41



All things that are Legal or Moral are not necessarily Right.

A few years ago it was illegal to drink likker. Now it is accepted as all right.

I can remember when a divorced person remarried during the lifetime of the spouse it was morally non-acceptable.

In Biblical times it was morally and legally right to have a multitude of wives at the same time.

Laws and Morals differ with times and people but Right is Right always.

Laws and Morals govern men�s relationship with other men but Right is a fundamental and unchanging Truth that deals with man�s relationship with himself and with his God.

Morality depends on your conception of Morality but Righteousness depends upon Right in the eyes of God.
June 26th




For where envying and strife is. There is confusion and every evil work. JAMES 3:16


Thanks be to the inspired wisdom of our Founders and their early associates, our Fellowship has escaped, in the main, the strife and confusion incident to operational management and financial administrations.

Nothing is more dangerous to the Alcoholic's sobriety than strife, suspicion, jealousy and their attendant confusions.

We are highly explosive people and we should remember that serenity is a vital ingredient of sobriety.

Keep ever in mind what you came to AA for originally and let nothing in your Group activities or associations divert you from that Goal.

If things in your Group are not right, then be tolerant, they will soon find it out and correct it. If they don't, then possibly they are right and you are wrong and you can then do a lot about that.
June 27th



And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. NUMBERS 22:34



Balaam's attitude was much the same as that of the practicing Alcoholic.

We weren't doing right but it was strictly our business. Possibly our families had some interest in the matter but we never felt that God entered into the situation at all. It is doubtful if many of us would have made a change even had we been able to recognize this fact

God does have a Big Interest in our individual actions and fortunate indeed is the Alky who, like Balaam, is willing to turn back when once he knows that his actions are contrary to the Lord.
June 28th



For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that mighty. CORINTHIANS 1:26&27



The wisest of the Medical And Scientific world could not find a satisfactory answer to the Alcoholic problem.

God did, and He chose the weak, foolish and disorganized drunk to be the means of humbling the wise. To teach them that with all their wisdom and scientific knowledge they should acquire understanding.

We have been chosen as an instrument of God to teach the insufficiency of even the wisest of men and the unfailing sufficiency of God
June 29th




Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 2ND KINGS 6:16



Isn't it a grand and glorious feeling: Such a short time ago and the hand of everyone was against us. Now everyone seems to want to help.

There are some exceptions, of course, but for the most part, everyone tries to help the guy who evidences a desire to help himself.

When Industry and Government become more aware of what our Program can accomplish in the rehabilitation of Alcoholics; when they see repeated evidences of the conversion of the Public Liability into a public Asset; then more hands will be outstretched to help and less and less will be the influence of intolerance, ignorance, and misunderstanding.
June 30th




He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be MY son. REVELATIONS 21:7




Apparently God's purpose for man is that he constantly strive to attain Perfection.

Scripture make it very plain that to merit His approval we must not only overcome our animal instincts but even those human characteristics that separate us from spiritual union with Him.

Nowhere does He say we must overcome our tendencies to drink. He says we should overcome. Period. Until we arrive at Perfection, there will always be things to overcome.

It is within the Power of God to remove all our character defects without our assistance but that is not His purpose. He means for us to do that job but He will give us all the help we need if we sincerely want it.

To the extent we do overcome our baser natures, to that extent He will be our God and we His sons.
July 1st




But if from thence thou shall seek the Lord thy God,, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and all thy soul. DEUTERONOMY 4:29



Half-way measures couldn't keep me drunk; half-way measures did not get me sober; half-way measures won't keep me sober indefinitely.

It is likewise true that finding a God of my understanding requires an all-out effort on my part for I had very little to start with.

This quotation tells me how it can be done. It requires all my heart and all my soul effort �no half measures will suffice.

As I endeavor to establish an intimate conscious contact with Him, it is imperative that I work on it twenty-four hours at a time, day in and day out. It's a big job but it pays big dividends.