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[QUOTE]How do I do that?

"Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look round for something to which to cling; and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life." Soren Kierkegaard

Most of our troubles tend to be of our own making. Despite our best intentions to behave honestly and honorably, we got caught in a riptide of such strength that we were drawn inexorably deeper and deeper into destruction. We couldn't see any solution to our situation---until something within us proved even more powerful and helped us reach out for help.

That something, we are told, is the power greater than ourselves and that the time has come for us to let go and hand over the reins to that unknown something or someone else.
"But how," we ask, "do I do that? Do I just sit down in the middle of the room and say, 'Okay, whomever or whatever you are, take over. I give up?'"

A recovering cocaine addict shared this method with a Twelve Step group: "I put my two hands out in front of me. In the left hand I pretend to put all the dirt and crap my using had created. In the right, I put all the abilities and talents I identify as positive characteristics about myself. Then I put my left hand behind my back and say: 'I won't look at any of this right now. Instead, I'll look at what I've got going for me, and I'll work on strengthening those assets. And when the time comes to bring my left hand into view again, I'll have developed the ability---through the belief that some Greater Power is working through me---to cope with the consequences of that wreckage better than I can do now.

Todays Step: Now that I see where sef-will has led me, it's easier to trust in a Higher Power.Step By Step, meditations for living the 12 steps. Muriel Zink