Shift

What is a Higher Power?  Think of it as a power shift, as in a gear box on a car.  All your life you want to go forward, but your gear shift is in neutral, or more likely reverse.  Step one, you finally notice this.  Step two, you take action and move the gear shift into Drive or Forward.  You are carried forward instantly, a little, slowly, on the correct gear shift.  This will at least keep you from going backward, for a while,  But then the vehicle will stop because you are doing nothing more, no foot on the gas peddle.  You have the right idea, but you must cooperate with the gear shift and press the gas peddle.  This is "taking action."   Each day, I recognize, or try to, that I will not go forward, grow, without my higher power, or gear shift connected to forward.  To be really good at spiritual growth would be like being on the upslope of Gough Street in San Francisco coming up from Cow Hollow, in a VW stick shift car.  You come to a stop light.  If you can get into the forward gear without stalling and then moving up the hill, you are an expert.  My first experiences of this were a disaster.  Boy did I need a drink after that!  Oops! Said too much.