Split… I sponsor guys and I get asked how do I do it? How do I turn my will and my life over to the care of anything else? I can’t do it! It’s my life, It belongs to me.

I tell them they are in my opinion, going at it the hard way. Instead of thinking about giving my life over to something else, something outside of me, and for that something else to take my life and will, and do what it will with it, I just take my doing step #3 as a promise to myself to do the rest of the steps. Nothing more, nothing less.

Read the Spiritual experience in the back of the Big Book. In it, it states we have tapped an inner resource that we presently identify with this concept of a power greater than ourselves. Not some outside power, but the power that has always been in us. We let it out, we don’t let it in.

So again in my opinion, we turn out will and our lives over to the care of (as President Lincoln put it in a speech once…) “The better angles of our nature.”

I think of all the steps, and the work I must do in order to get and stay sober as the ultimate inside job. All the tools I need to do the job, I was born with.

Stay the course, splitimage. The best is yet to come.
Richard