Step Two

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Alcoholics Anonymous Step 2.

59:9 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

The instructions for taking Step Two are found in the chapter We Agnostics, Page 47, Sentences 8-9:

47:8"We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. 9“Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe that there is a Power greater than myself?”

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Written by Frank D.   

Alcoholics Anonymous Step 2.

59:92. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

In Bill’s Story, Page 12, Sentences 9-19, Bill W. describes how realizing that he could choose his own conception of God removed his intellectual barrier to belief.

12:9My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. 10He said, "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"

 11That statement hit me hard. 12It melted the icy intel­lectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. 13I stood in the sunlight at last.

  14It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a power greater than myself. 15Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. 16I saw that growth could start from that point. 17Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend. 18Would I have it? 19Of course I would!

Our discussion of Bill’s Step 2 follows:

 
   
Written by Frank D.   
The Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book has very specific suggestions for how to make a beginning. In this table we have collected these instructions showing the page and sentence reference numbers and a brief excerpt. To best use this information you can look up the references in your own Big Book or read from the chapters on this site with page and sentence numbering provided.
 
   
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