A Loving God

Recently, as I began to think of where the Twelve Steps have brought me, I came to realize that there were differences in emphasis among those Steps which speak about God and my relationship to Him. I noticed, for example, that while the Third Step suggested I turn my will over to God's care, the Eleventh Step made no mention at all of my will. Rather, it emphasized God's will and my need to discover it and carry it out. Clearly, my will had become subordinate to God's will and this subordination seemed to imply that something new had occurred in my relationship with God. But what was that new something?