Step 2
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Notice this says came to believe and not come to believe. So what’s the difference? Come to believe is an immediate action. It implies that I will come to believe right now, that God will restore me to sanity. As if some magical tap of a wand or something will do that. Came to, implies that over a period of time and after developing a faith and trust in God, I will look back in retrospect and see that God had restored me to sanity.
Certainly God’s grace can accomplish this but we do have some work to do.
What about the insanity that this step speaks too? Are we crazy? I mean like certified, mental hospital, can’t function…crazy. Not me! Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of the proportion of the ability to think straight be called anything else?
See we’re not crazy, we just have messed up thinking. Look at the bad choices that you made behind your addiction or hangup. Back in my drinking days, I could drink one weekend out of the month and abstain the other 3…….and guess which weekend(s) unearthed all of my ugliness and bad decisions? The one where I drank. See it’s my thinking and my drinking that made my life suck.
My best thinking got me right where I am today. A sober drunk in a program of recovery.
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