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I'm Mark.

I'm an alcoholic.

And we're going to talk about step three, which is making a decision to turn our will and our life over the care

of God as we understood him if you want to open your big book up to page 60 there's a portion

of the book which I always like to read and I like to read it in first person and I'd like you to

follow along with me because I think it really lets you feel what it's like when you're

living a life based on self-will but toward the bottom of page 60 it says being convinced

to these ABCs I'm at step three which is that I'm going to decide to

turn my will. Of course, that's my thinking, my thought life, and my life, my actions over to

God as I understood him. Well, what do I mean? What do we mean by that? And then what do I have to do?

So there's two key questions to the third step.

What do we mean when we say you're going to make that decision?

And then the next one is, well, then what do I do?

And we have to meet a requirement before we make this decision.

And here's what it is.

The first requirement is that I must be convinced that any life running soft will can

already be a success.

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