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Step 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
All the steps are listed on pages 59 & 60, but this is where the instructions for this step can be found in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA, p. 42, paragraph 3, lines 1-2 Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. AA, p. 47, paragraph 2 We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself? As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. AA, p. 55, paragraph 2, lines 1-3 for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. AA, p. 55, paragraph 3, lines 3-7 Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. AA, p. 53, paragraph 2, lines 1-5 When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isnt. What was our choice to be? AA, p. 57 Some of us grow into it more slowly. But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him. When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us! AA, p. 64, paragraph 3, lines 5-6 When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. |
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