Skip Shares on Opening the Door and Step 3

'He Never Closed the Door'

This step for me in the begging was very hard for me. I was raised to belive that God was a punishing God, The church that I was raised in no mater what you did you were going to hell, so as a young man I didn't have much faith in a God or any kind or a higher power. But every time I was in trouble I would turn to God and ask for help and it surely did come, but I never than God I just went on with my drinking like nothing ever happened.

When coming into AA I found that I had to be willing, Willing to open the door, willing to have an open mind. I had to learn to break away from the self, which was standing in the way of me believing in a higher power.

Opened the Door and Kept It Open

One day while sitting in an AA room waiting for a meeting to start, I saw this Priest come into the meeting, he was the speaker. After the meeting was over he and I did have a long talk and he and I became very good friends. He helped me open that door and to keep it open. He helped me realize that God's love for me was what guided me to AA.

God had never closed the door on me, I was the one who kept closing the door on God, only reaching for him when the need came up. God sits right next to me at all times and when I truly ask for his will be done and not mine, life goes so well, I still try to run the show now and then, but my higher power keeps me on the right track, my higher power is fun and we have a good time in life, God meant for us to be happy and to help our brothers and sisters.

I Have to Do My Part

Step 3 opens the door and enables us to go on with the rest of the steps, without opening this door the rest will be an up-hill battle.

Thy will be done, not mine. It is great to have that kind of friend in my life, all I have to do is my part.

Loveya
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