Step 1 Recap 3

Step 1: “We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction(s)/compulsive behaviors-that our lives had become unmanageable.”

Welcome back folks.  Last time we left off with a question.  So what happened?  Our stinking thinking that’s what.  The power of our mind harnessed for our demise.  In our addictive state our mind can have us believing that a Lie is the Truth.  You know what I’m talking about here folks.  We become convinced that it’s okay for us to steal, cheat, lie, drink and drug.  We run around on our spouse. We are late for work- that is if we show up at all.  We throw our dignity and self respect out the window.  Yada yada.  And we believe that it’s alright to do so.

Here’s the paradox—we convince ourselves that it’s all okay because we Need that drink and/or fix.   Yet, we are sure that we don’t have a problem.  We can handle it.  We’ll do better next time.  Talk about a warped situation.  Yet we don’t have a problem?

That’s why most of us, when we first came to the tables, the senior members of the fellowship instructed us to just sit quietly for a while and to forget anything and everything that we thought that we knew because we really didn’t know anything.  But we sure thought that we did!!

That’s where we will pick it up next time.    

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