Thread: The 3rd Step
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Old 01-04-2006, 12:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
Sugasnaps
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Laurie.. maybe I do need to go back to Step 2. I thought I do accept a power greater than myself exists and that it can help me get back to sanity.

Here is my basic conclusion to Step 2. I believe that I am not alone. I believe I don't need to rely solely upon my own perceptions and interpretations of events for guidance, because I do believe that there is a higher presence in my life. What that presence is... I don't know... I don't know how to define it. Do I have to define it? Do I have to label it God? Do I have to believe that this higher power is sentient?

I believe that just because I believe this, however, that I am not relieved from choosing, in each instant, the course of my life... but it does mean that I have conscious access to compassionate and impersonal help in the analysis of possible choices, their probable consequences, and in the exploration of the different parts of myself and my psyche.

Is the fact that I accept this to be truth... enough to proceed?

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