Heard in a meeting…
August 17, 2007
After reading a post by Mark W on his blog A Dozen Steps, I decided to rekindle this blog site and create this “Heard in a Meeting” as a topic all it’s own. Mark has been a really great inspiration and really instrumental in taking a closer look at the program that’s been saving lives for over 70 years now.
To kick off this new topic, I’ll start with something I heard last night that was put so simply and so right on, it deserves to the be first installment.
“In step three, we turned our life and our will over to the care of God as we understood him. And in Step 11 he gives it back.”
If you read step 10 and 11 in the book Alcoholics Anonymous it lets us know what the proper use of our will actually is…. this tells me point-blank that the phrase: “Powerless over people places and things” is just nonesense someone made up.
John
