Stepping Outside – Step Three (Part 1)

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Well, now we can get back to the steps and how they will work for us as we live our day-to-day lives. After all, I’m sure you have figured out by now that these steps aren’t just something that we do, and we are finished with them after step number 12. No, if I am taking these steps and if I have learned lessons that they attempt to teach me, I have discovered that they are indeed a way of life.

This third step is especially suited to helping me live my life, hopefully, in a way that God wishes me to live it. In this episode I’ll talk about the first part of this step, and how it is so important for me to remember that I have decided to allow God to influence my life. It seems to be so easy to slide back into the way I used to behave, which was to put one foot in front of the other, and behave like some automaton, just going along with all of the others in the world.

That is not what this program is asking me to do. I believe I have mentioned that there seem to be indications in many places that out of the billions and billions of people who lived in the world, only 1 to 2% will “be with God”, whatever that means! I do not have a clue what it means, nor do I know in any way, shape, or form, what could possibly be in store for the other 98%. At one point in my life, it may have been important to me, but now I realize that I need only be responsible to follow the direction of my Spirit in order to be in that one or two %.

I suggest that you may want to look around and try to imagine what the people see as most important in their lives. I certainly don’t mean to try to judge people, but just try to discern what is important to them. I, and I hope you, know that God should be foremost in our lives. This is the reason I do this podcast and write books about our Spirit. I/we need to keep the 12-step foremost in our lives and do our best to share with others the power, love, and joy we have discovered in this 12-step program.