Step Two: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. -- Step Two of Al-Anon
We come to believe in a better life through the powerful gift of other people - hearing them, seeing them, and watching the gift of recovery at work in their lives. There is a Power greater than us. There is real hope now that things can and will be different and better for our life and us.
We are not in a "do it ourselves" program. We do not have to exert willpower to change. We do not have to force our recovery to happen. We do not have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps just so we believe that there is a Power greater than ourselves - one who will get the job done in our life. This Power will do for us what our greatest and most diligent efforts could not accomplish.
Our Higher Power will restore us to a sane and beneficial life. All we do is believe.
Look. Watch. See the people around you. See the healing they have found. Then discover your own faith, your own belief, your own healing.
Today, regardless of my circumstances, I will believe to the best of my ability that a Power greater than myself can and will restore me to a peaceful, sane way of living.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
Thanks, Pappy! This is exactly how it happened for me. I saw the change in others and figured if I did what they did it might happen for me too. Well, I'm grateful to say it did.
Yep Mike, ... When I 1st came to know AA, I thought these people are a bunch of nuts, or freaks ... they could not possibly know what I've been through and therefore were living in their own 'fantasy world' ... LMAO (now) ... ... ... I was the one living in that 'fantasy world' ... they found the solution to the exact same disease I was still carrying around with me .... low and behold, they DID know what I had been, and was still, going through ... and they had miraculously recovered ... when I finally got to the pits of 'Hell', I finally cried for help ... and they gave that freely and with 'joy' ...
It was hard to realize that I wasn't the brilliant person I thought I was, I was just 'another Bozo on the Bus' ... ... ... LOL (now) ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
