Waiting for Godot

Step Three can cause some of us a lot of problems. At one extreme our will can get in the way if we do not conscientiously follow this Step. Bill W. wrote about the misuse of willpower, saying how "we had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us." In this case, we follow the same old destructive path that got us into trouble in the first place. Maybe we made a decision to turn our lives over to God's care, but that's as far as it went. It's like a promise on the part of Congress to cut spending, then running up an ever-growing deficit.