Homer P. - Turning It Over: A Third Step Guide For Recovering People
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People in treatment programs and early recovery who are struggling with the concept of a Higher Power explore basic Step Three principles -- willpower and the power of relinquishing it. People learn the value of turning their will over to a Higher Power, come to understand surrender and commitment, and discover what works for them.
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1992 by H. T. P. First published by Health Communications, Inc. 1992 (Originally titled Turning It Over: How to Find Tranquility When You Never Thought You Could) First published by Hazelden 1999. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data H. T. P., date. Turning it over : a third step guide for recovering people / Homer P. p. cm. Originally published: Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 1-56838-321-5 1. Twelve-step programsReligious aspects Christianity. 2. Recovering addictsReligious life. 3. GodWill. I. Title. BV4596.T88H12 1999 248.8'629dc21 98-49920 CIP
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Cover design by Theresa Gedig Interior design by Donna Burch Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc.
Page v
Contents
Introduction
VII
1. Center of the Universe
1
2. A Pattern of Failure
9
3. Fear of the Unknown
15
4. Getting Your Feet Wet
23
5. The Chief Clown
33
6. The Jack-in-the-Box Connection
41
7. Negative Feedback
49
8. Accentuate the Positive
55
9. Look Who's Talking to God
65
10. Tricking the Mind
77
11. What's That I Hear?
89
12. Practicing the Presence
95
13. Climbing Jacob's Ladder
101
14. Top Priority
107
Notes
111
Bibliography
115
Page vii
Introduction
In His will is our peace. Dante Alighieri
In the shallows of an estuary, tiny fish hang motionless in a sunbeam outlined by the shadow of a mangrove branch. As the dark form of a larger fish looms into view, one of the small ones flashes into motion, then another, jiggling the kaleidoscopic pattern of liquid sunlight.
Overhead, a tight formation of three pelicans glides gracefully above the surface. One of them peels off, dives, and splashes awkwardly into the brownish green lagoon, soon surfacing with a fishtail frantically flapping from the side of its satchel beak.
As the pelican swallows convulsively, then heaves itself into the sky again, under the mangrove branch a tiny fish, motionless, peers from behind a sodden leaf and seems to tremble. It won't soon venture forth. All is quiet until the timeless stillness of this tranquil scene is interrupted again.
And again.
As I muse on this eternal interplay of life and death, my skiff drifting on the placid water near my south Florida home, I feel nostalgic. I sense my distant past. The mangrove roots that claw into the squishy black mud are my own. This is my world. I feel a part of it.
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But how much a part of it am I really? For the pelicans and fish are acting on instincthunger and fear. To a great extent, I have freed myself, as have all of us, from the pull of instinct.
The birds and the fish are, if any creatures are, encompassed body and mind by their Creator's will. They have not the least awareness that their will and their lives are being directed by a Higher Power. But they are. They can will nothing and live in no way other than that which has been provided for them in nature, a creative force that some say springs from God.
Can the same be said of us?
Our willis it truly our own? And can we do with it as we wish? Can we keep it or give it away? Is it our choice? Is it within our power?
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