• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer

(737) 237-9519

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Google
grace recovery

Grace Recovery TX

Sober Living for Women in Austin, TX

  • Home
  • About
    • Resources
    • Mental Health House
    • Recovery Experiential Coaching
    • Academic & Career Advising
    • Aftercare – Full Continuum of Care
    • Case Management
    • Life Skills
    • Emerge Recovery TX
  • Membership Features
    • Membership Benefits
  • Transitional Living
    • Our Houses
      • Grace 1
      • Grace 2
      • Grace 3
  • Grace Blog
  • Contact Us

12-STEP RECOVERY: STEP

You are here: Home / grace news / 12-STEP RECOVERY: STEP
January 7, 2019 by Leah
12 steps

Grace News January 2019

“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity”

When it was time for me to work the second step of our program of recovery, I brought with me a lifetime of judgements about organized religion and I was unwilling to be forced to accept someone else’s concept of a higher power. I believed that if someone wanted to force their religious beliefs on me or if my only option for membership was to believe what they believed, it was a cult. Good thing I read further. In reading on the second step in “Alcoholics Anonymous” encourages us to find a concept of our own, and I could definitely get down with that.

I have had experiences with God in my childhood and throughout my life. I was raised Catholic like everyone in my family and enjoyed going to church and participating in religious traditions of our faith. Unlike many who come into our program, I easily accepted the fact that there is something much larger than me.

The importance of step two is not that we currently believe, but we become willing to believe there is a Power greater than ourselves. When we acquire this willingness, we are ready to move on in our step work. I had no idea what God meant at this point, but I had faith that there was a higher purpose to my life. Because I experienced such a spiritual low and was very clear that my only options were death or jail if I continued to live the way I was living, I became willing to listen and try something new. I did not fully understand what it meant to have a spiritual experienced until I continued to work my steps.

The book tells us that “willingness, honesty and open-mindedness” (567) are the indispensable requirements of our program. I invite you to open your mind and watch your life flourish!

Becca

Category: grace newsTag: recovery, womens sober living

About Leah

Previous Post:womens home austin tx“CAME TO BELIEVE IN A POWER GREATER THAN OURSELVES COULD RESTORE US TO SANITY.” STEP 2, ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Next Post:WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR: A SEASON FOR CHANGEnew year

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Still Have Questions?

Contact Us Today

Contact Grace Recovery Today

Inspiration

“A WOMAN IS UNSTOPPABLE WHEN SHE REALIZES SHE DESERVES BETTER”

Be A Better You

Grace Recovery TX

Austin, TX 78745
(737) 237-9519


  • Facebook
  • Google
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram

Copyright © 2023 · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Love