Spiritual Inclusion

The Spiritual Inclusion Working Group is continuing to make our program more spiritually inclusive, especially for newcomers by opening to diverse spiritual and non-spiritual perspectives.
What thoughts, considerations and ideas do you have?

From A New Hope ACA Beginner’s Handbook (Draft 5) – “Chapter 11: Spirituality”
“At its core, spirituality is a process of surrender: We release the illusion that we alone must have all the answers. When we recognize that we need help and sincerely ask for it in our ACA community, we open to sources of love, healing, acceptance, and wisdom that we never knew existed.

To our amazement, these​ resources become increasingly accessible, and our world becomes bigger and kinder. Some of us explain this in secular terms, such as the power of friendship, community, and connection. Others speak of nature, the universe, or life itself. And still, others more comfortably describe these resources in traditionally religious language. But whether atheist, agnostic, or believer . . . all recovering adult children have access to something greater than themselves. In this sense, spirituality is what many of us feel sitting among fellow travelers at an ACA meeting, and experience within as we learn to become our own loving parents.”