Step 3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.
I had begun reading the BB. I had come to believe in God again....it was not a God different from the one of my childhood. I just had a better understanding of what God was about.....He was love, and faith, and power, all rolled into one. He didn't find me to be a "sinful" person, rather, he knew that I had been sick in mind and in body. I didn't have to stay sick.
All I had to do, on a daily basis, was ask God to run my life, so I could let go of it. It's been said that we have to lose our life to find it. That's what I did. I had come, I had come to, and now I came to believe! It was just that simple. I mean, hey, what was I giving to God anyway? My will and my life were doing me no good by then. I figured anything or anyone could guide me better than I had!
I can't, God can, so I think I'll let Him. The third step prayer is my favorite of all the prayers in the BB: "God, I offer myself to thee, to build with me and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help, of thy love, and thy way of life. May I do thy will always."
If we have a close friend or a family member with whom we can share this Step, we should do that. But if not, it is better to meet God alone in taking this step, rather than to take it with someone who may not understand.
When we use this prayer daily, wondrous things come to pass for the sick and suffering alcoholic. We are now practicing faith, that thing we first felt when we walked into the doors the first time. It will only get better, as we do this one day at a time.
