“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understood Him.”
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Having faith in something that I could not see, feel, taste, touch, or smell took a great deal of effort. First, I had to become willing to make that decision to turn over my will to something that I couldn’t sense. Releasing that belief to another power was not easy and even sixteen years later I sometimes find that I have tried to regain control.
I learned that I only had to make a decision to turn my will and life over to God. The mistake I made was in thinking that I had to totally understand God before turning my will over. The only under standing that I needed was there is a God and I ain’t Him.
I took a leap of faith and decided to let God take over my life for a day. I lasted about an hour before I took the reigns again. I was about two years sober before I realized that if I let things alone, everything would work out the way its supposed to.
Asking for the miracle is easy. Waiting for it to happen it the hard part. I had to learn that nothing happens on my time schedule.
I had to learn about no. Most of the time the answer to my prayer was not a no for eternity, but no for now…that God had other plans for me, or I wasn’t ready for what I asked God to give me.
The Third Step is about Faith. The Third Step is about willingness. The Third Step is about trust in God.
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