Spirituality and How To Excel With Steps 1-3

I am not setting the world on fire with my stellar intellectual skills and this is shown in the fact that I received my BS from the streets long before I received my BS from college. As alcoholics, to excel in anything, we should try starting a program of recovery

I need things to be simple in order for me to understand new actions when I first hear about them. I bring this to the first three steps of AA by making it simple. Step 1 — I can’t. Step 2 — He can. Step 3 — I think I’ll let Him.

Simple is not always easy

The AA program is really simple to get started. Step 1 states We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable. I had quit drinking so many times that I finally quit quitting. My life was almost completely out of control. As the fear grew into staggering proportions, I had no idea what, if anything, I could do. By myself, even after reading a bejillion self-help books, I was without a clue as to what was wrong and what I could do about it.

Step 2 says: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. The only God that I was aware of couldn’t or wouldn’t help me because He was a judging, punishing God whose last name was Damnit and Jesus Christ was only an expletive used when maybe bumping my shin on a low object. Then I started to understand that there was a Power greater than me that seemed to be in control. It allowed me to breathe without even thinking about it. My heartbeat with…