In the third of the 12 steps as designed by Alcoholics Anonymous it says, “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives to the care of God as we understood Him.” Many spiritual practices speak of the turning over of one’s will to that of a power greater than themselves. In AA they present the idea in the previous step that you can create your own understanding of this Higher Power. To me more than anything is in the acknowledgment that it must be a power that I believe cares for me. Otherwise, why would I be willing to turn my will and my life over to it? The formulation of this Higher Power is therefore influenced by what I see as care. It actually took me several years into recovery before I saw the word “care” in the step. I now realize it allows me to more readily recognize when I have given power over to something that does not care for me. That could be a person and his or her ideas, an experience, a story in my head, an expectation, a job, a possession, or my own negative thinking. When those entities are not caring for me, they are clearly not my Higher Power. I can then take a step back and reevaluate what I am turning my will and my life over to in that moment. Being still, as I learned to do in my daily prayer and meditation date with God, tune’s my ears and my heart to the still small quiet voice of God which cares for me.
Be From Care!
on December 26, 2016My prayer for us is the courage to look at whether or not the Higher Power in any given moment is truly interested in our care and ask our real higher power to step in.
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