I’ve started this step a few times and am ready to really make it happen this time. First off, I’m reading page 63 of the AA book. Here are some highlights: Selfishness – self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They […]
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Step 3 Questions Continued
Humbling yourself before God To humble yourself is a decision you make. Satan may try to get you to believe that although God helped others, He won’t help you because you are helpless and hopeless. Recognize this lie for what it is. In truth, you are a child of God. How can this knowledge help […]
Step 3 Questions & Answers Continued – Trust In God
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. It is a hard doctrine, but it is true. The many other things we give to God, however nice that may be of us, are actually things He has already given us, and He has loaned […]
Interesting Thoughts about Moral Inclinations
The worst possible thing for any of us — no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be — is to become fixated with them, to dwell on them. When we do that, not only do we deny the other things that comprise us, but experience teaches that there will be […]
Step 3 Questions & Answers
I’ve been really working on Step 3 – Trust in God, over the last few weeks. Here’s how: Personal Prayer every morning on my way to work Reading something from the scriptures almost every day Working hard to “pray in the moment of temptation” – be it my addiction, anger, etc. Here is the 1st […]
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