Quotes - Step Three

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Chapter 3

Page 35

Maybe this all sounds mysterious and remote, some-
thing like Einstein's theory of relativity or a proposition
in nuclear physics. It isn't at all. Let's look at how practical
it actually is. Every man and woman who has joined A.A.
and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a begin-
ning on Step Three. Isn't it true that in all matters touching
upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her
life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcohol-
ics Anonymous? Already a willingness has been achieved
to cast out one's own will and one's own ideas about the
alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A. Any
willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor
for the foundering vessel he has become. Now if this is not
turning one's will and life over to a newfound Providence,
then what is it?