“The humility of asking for help keeps us from self-righteousness and protects us against outbreaks of either grandiosity or self-pity.”

– Life with Hope, first edition, page 51

In Step Three, we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a Higher Power of our understanding. At this Step, I struggled to understand what it meant to turn my will and my life over to the care of a Higher Power. I was still stuck in patterns of thinking in extremes; it had to be all or nothing, right?

Luckily, my sponsor pointed out that all I was asked to do was to make a decision. I was asked to have faith that a power greater than myself could possibly guide and direct me. I was asked to be empowered to trust in a higher force of energy, purpose, and love that is always streaming through me and around me. I was not asked to submit. I was asked to take action with the gifts my Higher Power had imparted upon me.

I was not expected to be a perfect human being, just one who is willing to connect to new solutions in life. A relationship with a Higher Power is infinitely available to me. I sit in meditation; walk in the woods; and reach out and tune in to the frequency of the source of my Higher Power.

Final thought: Today, I get to actively decide to channel my energy, to learn and grow in a daily relationship to a spiritual connection that speaks the language of my heart and spirit.