Higher Than What?

 What is this “Higher Power” stuff?  Well, let’s look at gradations of power or power levels.  The alcoholic, for instance, has some power to do a few things, like make bad decisions to drive while drunk.  Alcohol has more power than the will of the alcoholic.  So alcohol is a power greater than the will power of the alcoholic. The alcoholic cannot control alcohol intake.  But there is a power greater than the alcohol.  This greater  power is called “The Higher Power.”  It’s greater than the power of alcohol.  Ask any alcoholic in recovery.  Their own will power was no power at all.  Alcohol ruled.  In recovery alcohol is defeated on a daily basis by a higher power than alcohol.