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Day 6

Playing God doesn't work

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear----not absence of fear." Mark Twain

The Jekyll-Hyde syndrome is both familiar and confusing to most of us who have been victims of addictive/compulsive disorders. By nature we are honorable people who would not intentionally do harm to anyone. Yet, caught up in our compulsions, we have behaved in antisocial and hurtful ways.

Unaided, we seemed incapable of helping ourselves. This is why Step Three is of such importance. We simply must release the reins of self-will. We have to stop playing God. It hasn't worked.

Now, laid out before us are alternatives created and practiced by people who have tried them and found them successful. It has been proven to their satisfaction that some sort of Higher Power does exist. We are certainly in no position to deny their successes. As many of them have told us, "Try it on for size. If you don't think it works, we'll gladly refund your misery."

Today's Step: When I let go of playing God, I begin to experience a Higher Power.

Step by Step. Muriel Zink