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Step #5 – I Have to Do What (Part 3 )
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So, in part three of the fifth step I want to talk about the second entity that is mentioned in the step. Who or what is this entity that we need to confide in. Well, it’s an entity that we have not found ourselves (usually) in which to willingly confide in the past. It always seemed to me, when I looked in the mirror, that this was the last person in the world that I wanted to be honest with. Why would I change that now? The first three steps, is the answer!
You see, when I looked in the mirror before, I was alone. Now, I firmly believed what the first three steps told me. Number one, my life with certainly unmanageable. Number two I really and truly believed that I was certainly insane and that there was a power I could turn to to direct me in my effort to become sane.
(I realized this condition of insanity when my is an honest fourth step.)
And third, I had said yes, with all the earnestness at my command, and decided, in short, to allow God to influence (as best I can) the decisions I make as a human being.
So, now I could talk to myself, and look at myself in the mirror, and see a person that really is loved by God and has the potential to demonstrate the changes in myself.
It certainly did help for me to look in that mirror, or at myself, and rehash the fourth step as a reminder of the forgiveness of God and not only the changes that were happening, but also the newfound love I was developing for myself.
This most certainly is an important part of this fifth step.
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