If you have been in the program for a short time, you will have noticed that your life, although not looking great right now, is grudgingly seeming to be getting better. If you have been in the program for some time, days, months, years, decades, your life has been getting better quite regularly since working on this new way of living. But maybe it seems to have hit a detour, dead end, brick wall, whatever you wish to call it. So you may sometimes wonder what happened. The AA program and its wonderful guidelines to a better life, the 12 Steps, may seemingly not be working right now.
This, my friends, is the time to stop whatever you are doing and RUN, not walk, back to the 3rd Step! Since Spirituality has been introduced to you by AA, you have been shown a way of life that was completely unknown prior to your entrance into the program. It has worked for days, weeks, months, years, decades and, deep inside, you know just what to do.
When you totally and truthfully turn your will and your life over to the care of the Higher Power of your understanding, you don’t have to fret, stew, or worry any more about outcomes. All that should be done is to take care of the now! Using this newfound faith, know that the outcome will be the right thing.
This goes back to the CBA principle – CREATE the idea that your Higher Power will help with whatever is amiss. BELIEVE completely that this is truly the case and that all will be well. Now, all that is left is to ACHIEVE the peace of mind that was so elusive. Thus, if the first two were done to the best of your ability, you truly will ACHIEVE peace of mind. This is a very simple program for very complicated folks. The opposite of FEAR is FAITH. Hear this, know this, and you will FEEL this throughout your body. “Thy will be done”. God bless you!
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