Alcoholics Anonymous | Step 3 | March 4

Alcoholics Anonymous | Step 3 | March 4 |

When we are young we thrive, learning everything and simply growing, "the essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails..." Sober we have room to grow, open, honest and willing change happens!

Obsession will drive us into the jaws of insanity ~ Anne Frank "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." Balance in our daily endeavours, we get perespective in all matters of emotional and spiritual life...

Living in the ever present, imperfectly perfect, moment of now ~ Anne Frank "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -/- Improving our outlook, attitude and behaviour, we are open and included in the world of now...


AA "All About" Learning who we are today ~ Sydney J. Harris "Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves." Emotional and spiritual learning is always just for today...

Open Honest & Willing, a new start every day.. ~ - Virginia Woolf "If you do not tell the truth about ourselves we cannot tell it about other people." -/- Clean house, our own back yard and our choices are clear and fresh...

Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions, steps to be open honest and willing to learn, traditions to live unity service and recovery

Step 3 "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him" Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription. It reads: "This is the way to a faith that works." We find faith in doing the next right action, based on truth, love and wisdom we learn as life unfolds.

Open To Truth, Love And Wisdom of Others [we let go having to be right, self obsessed and self medicating our lives away into oblivion and harms way]

We find it amazing that the newcomer can start the A.A. program without any specific beliefs or, for that matter, without any beliefs whatsoever. All a person needs is the open-mindedness and the willingness to believe that WE BELIEVE this program works...

"God [it is what I understand to be God or a "Higher Power," always a personal understanding we have for ourselves, there is no AA or common understanding, simply what you believe] God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference" God is often understood to be: Truth, Love and Wisdom in the moment of now... your faith, your understanding.

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