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Old 12-19-2007, 12:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
savoy
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Originally Posted by nandm View Post
My experience with Step Three is that it was the springboard for opening my eyes to the spiritual experience. When I let go and prayed the Third Step prayer it allowed opened the door to increased willingness, hope, and strength.

What are your experiences with Step Three?
How did Step Three change your thoughts, behaviors, and/or life?
It was a ballistic experience.
Someone explained it to me, because I had been an ardent atheist I had been holding back for decades. Like stretching an elastic, the more you pull it back the greater the release.

Notice in Bills story, he was "catapulted" into the spiritual realm.

Whereas later in the book "we have been rocketed...".

It changed everything.
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