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July 1994

Lightning Bolts and Fury

Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

"God as we understood him": This was just one of the many confusing statements I had heard in AA rooms. "You've got to give it away to keep it" was another. "Keep it simple," an old-timer told me in his most assured way. Then in the very next breath, he said: "If you don't have your own higher power, you can borrow mine."

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