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April 2001

Fear and the Fourth Step

Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

How often have you heard, "I know I should start on my Fourth Step, but I'm terrified!"? I know guys in the Fellowship who, when active, were flat-out reckless. But take these very same go-for-broke guys, and suggest it's time to do a Fourth Step and you've never seen such cagey deliberation, such wariness, such humorless, frozen-faced fear.

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