step one
Step one: We are powerless. Step two: Came to believe that a power greater than ourseves can restore us to sanity. Many people may feel that to admit to being powerless is to admit defeat. In a way this is true. We have admitted defeat from what ever it is that we are addicted to. But as the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions tell us “Only through utter defeat are we able to take the first steps towards liberation and strength.” This in itself almost seems an oxymoron, how can we gain strength through admitting we are powerless? I myself struggled with this very same dilemma for a very long time. I was under the mistaken notation that because I am powerless I had the ticket to continue doing what I was doing. With the admitting that I am powerless I am starting from step one, rock bottom so to say. This bottom is different for any one, and indeed truly personal. It is only from our bottoms, that we can truly start the long climb back out of the self-imposed pit that we have placed ourselves. While making this climb out we can begin to see just how out of control our lives had become and how unnamable the world around us seemed. So truly we have become insane in our actions towards this illness.
Step one: We are powerless. Step two: Came to believe that a power greater than ourseves can restore us to sanity. Many people may feel that to admit to being powerless is to admit defeat. In a way this is true. We have admitted defeat from what ever it is that we are addicted to. But as the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions tell us “Only through utter defeat are we able to take the first steps towards liberation and strength.” This in itself almost seems an oxymoron, how can we gain strength through admitting we are powerless? I myself struggled with this very same dilemma for a very long time. I was under the mistaken notation that because I am powerless I had the ticket to continue doing what I was doing. With the admitting that I am powerless I am starting from step one, rock bottom so to say. This bottom is different for any one, and indeed truly personal. It is only from our bottoms, that we can truly start the long climb back out of the self-imposed pit that we have placed ourselves. While making this climb out we can begin to see just how out of control our lives had become and how unnamable the world around us seemed. So truly we have become insane in our actions towards this illness.