Letting Go and Trusting: Exploring Step Three – 416
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Step Three states: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” We’ll be delving into this step, discussing its essence and sharing personal experiences. Step Three comes after acknowledging the hope for a saner life (Step Two). This step is about making a...
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| 0:00.0 | Alan's third step says, made a decision to turn our will and our life to the care of God as we understood him. |
| 0:08.0 | How do we do this? |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to episode 416 of the Recovery Show. This episode is brought to you by |
| 0:15.8 | Jerry, Nancy, Jana, Brian, Anne, and viola. They used the donation button on |
| 0:21.4 | our website. Thank you Jerry, Nancy, Janet, Brian, Anne, |
| 0:26.5 | Viola for your generous contributions. This episode is for you. We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to |
| 0:35.6 | serenity and happiness. We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction |
| 0:40.5 | understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe |
| 0:45.7 | that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:49.2 | Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program. |
| 0:57.0 | During this show, we will share our own experiences. |
| 1:01.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them take what you like and leave the rest |
| 1:07.0 | We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life |
| 1:11.7 | My name is Spencer. I am your host today and joining me today. Welcome back. Mary. |
| 1:17.6 | Hello. Our topic today as you might have guessed, is Step 3, which again says, made a decision to turn our |
| 1:26.3 | will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. |
| 1:31.8 | We're going to be following the section about step three in the book how |
| 1:37.8 | Alnon works for friends and families of alcoholics going a paragraph at a time and then each of us responding. of has said to us. We'll start with the first paragraph. In step two we came to believe that there was hope for a saner and more serene way of life. In step three, we decide to choose that way of life by turning to a God of our understanding for help. |
| 2:06.0 | I always like to say that this step is the hardest step, |
| 2:10.0 | because to me this step highlights a lot of the problems that I have as an Allenon which is I like to do and not reflect as much and this step is not an actual step. It's a |
| 2:27.3 | decision step and there's nothing really to do except to make a decision. I don't know if any of your |
| 2:34.8 | guests have mentioned the three frogs thing. Three frogs are on a log. One |
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