saved1
12-01-2010, 03:25 AM
This step is crucial but one of the most overlooked and underrated for its value.
Until l understand the inner meaning of the twelve steps, my natural impulse is to resist admitting that they apply to me.
I don't want to believe that i am powerless or that i have allowed my life to become unmanageable. Yet i know i must accept the First Step before i can make progress.
Although most do acknowledge a power greater than ourselves, we are shocked at first with the idea that we need to be "restored to sanity," as the Second Step Suggests.
Yet a honest appraisal of many of my reactions shows me I have often resorted to futile and childish tricks to achieve what i wanted. With my thoughts distorted by fear, despair and resentment, and my nerves overwrought, I could not Think Clearly nor make Wise Decisions.
Each of the twelve steps challenges me to be absolutely honest with myself.
They will make me ready to accept the help of my Higher Power in restoring myself to the whole-some sanity of a mature, reasonable adult.
Reflecting back i also passed over this step only to find out later the rest of the program works much better with it.
Until l understand the inner meaning of the twelve steps, my natural impulse is to resist admitting that they apply to me.
I don't want to believe that i am powerless or that i have allowed my life to become unmanageable. Yet i know i must accept the First Step before i can make progress.
Although most do acknowledge a power greater than ourselves, we are shocked at first with the idea that we need to be "restored to sanity," as the Second Step Suggests.
Yet a honest appraisal of many of my reactions shows me I have often resorted to futile and childish tricks to achieve what i wanted. With my thoughts distorted by fear, despair and resentment, and my nerves overwrought, I could not Think Clearly nor make Wise Decisions.
Each of the twelve steps challenges me to be absolutely honest with myself.
They will make me ready to accept the help of my Higher Power in restoring myself to the whole-some sanity of a mature, reasonable adult.
Reflecting back i also passed over this step only to find out later the rest of the program works much better with it.