Step 3-----thoughts

[nandm]

What is Step Three about?

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood him."

Step Two was the springboard for spiritual awakening. Now, in Step Three, we are poised for that dive into the bottomless pool of trust where we begin practicing a belief we are not even sure we have.

Day by day, we will examine this step in all of its implications and ramifications. We will probably experience some doubt and skepticism about our ability to truly surrender our will and our lives to the unknown.

But we can not have come this far without feeling that there have been some subtle cahnges in our attitudesa and reactions. Before we're through, we'll experience even more of these behavioral and attidudinal changes.

Step By Step, Daily meditations for living the Twelve Steps. By Muriel Zink

[nandm]

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?

[savoy]

Originally Posted by nandm

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.

[SaTiT]

Willingness.

Not turning my will and life over to others..humans arn't GOD
as i understand it..but some people play god.
This step distinguish AA from a cult
The answer is in tradition #3.

It was a simple suggestion Ebby made to BW.
Freedom.
"why don't you just choose a god of your understanding"
AA's foundation. A program of suggestions, not rules.

As long as I have a desire to reach out to god..there it is.

Faith.
I can make decisions all day long in my head.
I have faith already i was born with it...an awakening of sorts.

How do you know if you turned you will over to GOD if
you're working the 12 steps ???
mmm...working the rest of the 12 steps...into actions
and following Faith.

[ibana27]

This is the step that I'm on...next is that "moral inventory" I needa make...so I'll just stay on this step for awhile! jk!