"Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."

This is a good place to borrow anothe line from the Big Book because it aptly describes how many of us may be feeling right now: "What an order! I can't go through with it!"

This is the step where humility smacks us right between the eyes.

It was one thing to write out our inventory for ourselves. As for sharing it with God---if there is a God, He'd know all about us anyway. But we're also being asked to share our inventory with another person! This is asking too much! Why can't we simply assess ourselves and get on with the business of cleaning up our lives?

Why not? Because there's something very good waiting for us on the other end. As we follow the process of Step Five to its conclusion, we'll come to understand more fully all the reasons for---and advantages of---taking this Step exactly as it is written.