The Second Sunday of Easter

Do 

not 

doubt 

but 

believe. 

John 20:27

The third step of AA is ”Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” Like the folks in the Gospel story today,  the community has had an experience of God’s saving power. Thomas, who was not there the first time Jesus appeared after his resurrection, is now present (underlining again the importance of suiting up and showing up.) Being there, he has the experience himself, after  which, the Lord says: "Do not doubt but believe.”  Although the decision is not made in a vacuum, nevertheless a decision must be made and on it rests “the success of the whole rest of the AA program.” It is the “triumphal arch to which we walk to freedom. “