Hi, I am just starting on step 3 of the 12 step as program and I don’t ‘get’ the prayer, however many times I read it I can’t get it to sound right, the sentence Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of thy power, thy love and thy way of life’ just doesn’t make sense to me, - help anyone?
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its suggested you take this step with a understanding person maybe a sponsor .when i take this step with my guys we are at page 58 chapter 5 how it works i go through it with and we kneel and say the third step prayer . we were turning our lifes over to god as we understood him our decision. our dificulties are are things that have been blocking our recover so we ask him to remove these this could be ego , self centered, fear , anger, and for victory over them is that we now try to help our fellow human being and become a useful person and we try to do gods will not our own we have to voice this without reservation once we have done this we go onto step 4 personal inventory
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You don’t need to use those exact words. The basic idea that you are turning your life over to a higher power, so that you may be of service to others, and in turn, help yourself stay sober.
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Lol, you are one step ahead of me @Jasmine69 ! My progress has been SLOOOW.
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I’m in the process of writing out my 4th step.
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Is it hard work @Melrm? X
A little emotionally exhausting because it hashing the who/cause/ and my part of resentments. This is my 2nd time so luckily I don’t have a massive list going way back. But I’ll tell you, once you release all this junk and baggage in your life…it’s so liberating. And it makes room for new, positive stuff in our lives.
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