Step Three

(Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understood him)

This in my opinion and experience is the simplest of steps and yet people struggle with it and complicate it to no end. This step takes the least amount of effort, out of all the steps it takes the least amount of work.

I can only give my opinion and experience with this step and share what has been revealed to me. All I have to do is want to believe in God, he will do the rest, he will bridge the gap. I am a human being and imperfect and therefore I cannot bridge the gap, only he can.

God does not expect me to be a saint, I expect me to be a saint because I think that's what is required for God to pay attention to me, it seems to be a part of the human condition.

So in the grand human tradition I throw stumbling blocks in front of myself and cut myself off from God, God does not cut me off from him. Step three gets me, I don't have to get it, all I have to do is do the reading in the big book and ask God to take care of me and show me his will and then let him....it's that simple....let him.

People stumble over the question "what is Gods will for me"? Of course in my own self centred mind I'm thinking it must be something complicated and grand. I keep it simple though, that's what I was taught to do and it works. If I had a child what would my will be for him or her? Simple...try to be a good person, don't drink and use drugs, don't hurt people, don't lie cheat and steal. If my child were to stumble and commit any one of these sins would I hate them and cut them off from me? Of course not. God is the same way I've learned, he is my parent....my heavenly parent and loves me, my job is just to want him to be in my life, he will do the rest.

Not all in my time of course, but in his own time.