Saturday, August 4, 2012

A Spontaneous Step Three


Page: 57

Step we are on: Step Two

Chapter: "We Agnostics"

Subject: Conscious Contact, Miracles, Healing, Sanity

Good morning. The Minister’s Son is having his spiritual awakening experience after just one visit from his “sponsor” – (not Bill Wilson) who took him through Steps 1, 2 and now he is having a spontaneous Step Three event. Sometimes Step Three is just like that.
  • What made it possible for him to come to believe?
Circumstances made him willing to believe.
This is in reference to Step Two.
  • What did he do?
He humbly offered himself to his Maker

This is a reference to Step Three

  • Then he what?
then he knew.
This is in reference to the Step Three experience where, “an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.”

  • For how many had God repeated this miracle?
Even so has God restored us all to our right minds.
A "right mind" is one that is sane, free from obsession, no longer in danger from those "strange mental blank spots" that are the insanity of the "first drink".

It is fitting that we are ending this Step Two section of the Big Book with this wonderful segue straight intro Step Three. 

TOMORROW (We complete "We Agnostics"- Step Two.)
  • Did this man have sudden spiritual or a gradual one?
  • Then some of us must experience which?
  • What is the promise to all those who will become students and practitioners of this Basic Textbook?
  • If we try to apply these Steps to our lives, what will happen?

Peace and  Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic

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