Don't Bet on 'Me'

STEP THREE is a pivotal point in the twelve step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this Step we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Many people who have made a beginning on Steps One and Two falter here. This is a pretty big decision for most of us. It represents a drastic change of focus. What is suggested is that we put all our chips on the God theory. This involves taking at least ninety-five per cent of those chips off the "me" theory where they have been for many years. Now this whole proposition is desperately serious.