Alcoholics Anonymous | March 1 2013 | Steps In Action | Step 3 “Your Higher Power” | step three: “made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” Dependence on a higher power, as a means to independence… I was quite worried when I read this, I had no concept of God and no concept of a higher power, and it made no sense to be dependent on something I could not understand. I realised after a while that I did not know the answers to many of life’s issues and certainly didn’t know how to be sober one day at a time. I did learn very quickly that there were many people with more truth, love and wisdom about sobriety than me…
All my life a learner, a quick study, when it came to matters of work and relationships. Good at thinking and able to see the big picture around me, and often disappointed because people, places and things… It was difficult for me to stay put in any place for too long and I didn’t know why until I got to fellowship and started to learn about my emotional and spiritual needs. I was like a chameleon, fitting in, wherever I went. And I was very able at being a part of something and then disappearing to a new job, a new career and always on the move. I thought this was the way life was, never being too close and never staying too long, and my best friend always travelled with me wherever I went. There was always a drink at the end of the day and more. When I first heard people talking about emotional and spiritual living, it was confusing in fellowship. My feelings in the moment of now, the emotional and spiritual, and learning to be included, one day at a time…[continues on the blog: http://oddbook.co]
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March 2013 | AA Big Book Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF5F3EC98C6012A4
March 2013 | AA Twelve Step Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3BFA6062268A289D
March 2013 | AA Step Three Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIJM_JUs0fM
March 2013 | AA Video Reading How It Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rj3wPVvk3Q
March 2013 | AA Video Reading A Vision For You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8B5pqwGXgU
March 2013 | Video Daily Playlist Step Three: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6BC3004F2776EEAB