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October 1954

The Twelve Steps and the Older AA

Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.<lbSecond in a series of articles to be published from time to time on the meaning of the Twelve Steps, as one member sees them after a few years of sobriety.

WHEN I first heard the second step of AA's program seven years ago it was like lightning striking. They tell us that physical lightning strikes with two almost simultaneous flashes, occurring so quickly they appear to be one. For me, the spiritual lightning of Step Two hit with two great truth-currents practically in the same instant.

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