Mostly whiny, moderately bossy

  Before my husband and I got married, I described myself to him as "mostly whiny, moderately bossy".   I was trying something new, putting it all out there from the beginning, giving him every chance to get away while he still could.  Thank God he doesn't scare easily!  Growing up, those words, whiny and …

Turning over my will

  Step Three of the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous says: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him." This week I am working on step three as I go through the steps with my sponsor.  I think that of all of the …

Laying down my rock

Thy will, not mine, be done. That is the essence of the third step of Alcoholics Anonymous. While I have found that all of the steps are hard, I think that the third step was, and continues to be, the hardest for me. By the time I got to the program, I knew without a …