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Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
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This is Step 3 in the program of
Alcoholics Anonymous
and other twelve-step recovery fellowships. It basically means that the afflicted has taken into careful consideration the likelihood that
someone,
preferably a "
Higher Power
," could more safely or competently run his/her own life and that the afflicted is willing to give this entity that control.
Some mistakenly believe that taking Step 3 means that the aflicted becomes some sort of religious
zealot
, or other similar whacked-out notions. Others believe that this is an "action" step. Nope, not quite...
To use a classic 12-step
analogy
: Imagine that there are four frogs sitting on a log. One frog makes a decision to jump into the pond. How many frogs are still on the log? All four. Why? Because the one frog did nothing more than to
make a decision
; no other
action
had yet been taken.
The
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