Step 3

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

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  1. Once and for all18 April 2026
  2. Turn it over and leave it there!13 March 2026
  3. Collaboration28 February 2026
  4. Decisions22 February 2026
  5. Step Three and Pascal’s wager.16 January 2026
  6. Ticket to ride25 December 2025
  7. Shush5 December 2025
  8. Nearness20 August 2025
  9. The Hand17 June 2025
  10. Dependence20 February 2025
  11. Step Three for the grumpy18 February 2025
  12. Difficulties15 January 2025
  13. Step Three: pages 60 to 62, commentary20 December 2024
  14. Troubles20 December 2024
  15. Enough24 November 2024
  16. A talk on Step Three ...30 October 2024
  17. Humbly19 October 2024
  18. A talk on the Higher Power ...1 October 2024
  19. Turning it over25 September 2024
  20. Decisions, decisions19 September 2024
  21. Turning it over3 August 2024
  22. A talk on Step Three ...18 July 2024
  23. Anonymous26 June 2024
  24. Stopping going to AA10 January 2024
  25. A talk on absolute surrender ...7 January 2024
  26. Have I turned it over?18 November 2023
  27. Triple surrender14 September 2023
  28. Whose time is it?10 August 2023
  29. All our affairs24 June 2023
  30. "cast out one’s own will and one’s own ideas" (Step Three)19 June 2023
  31. To go forward go back not forward because forward is back and back is forward9 June 2023
  32. Running life on self-will: a diagnostic tool7 June 2023
  33. Boundaries6 June 2023
  34. The first three Steps in outline6 June 2023
  35. Not my life, not my problem8 May 2023
  36. Step Three: But Nothing Happened!20 April 2023
  37. My business & not my business30 March 2023
  38. Trying too hard? Over-managing?4 January 2023
  39. The wanting monster and the balloon11 October 2022
  40. Just one thing to do10 October 2022
  41. I wonder what the problem is!26 September 2022
  42. A life run on self-will can hardly be a success17 September 2022
  43. Step One: a shocking prospect28 May 2022
  44. Al-Anon Step Three1 May 2022
  45. Step Four: Into the woods15 November 2021
  46. I blew it!30 October 2021
  47. My troubles are of my own making20 May 2021
  48. How to deal with Steps Two and Three if you don't believe in God and had a bad religious experience in your childhood: some ideas13 March 2021
  49. Steps One to Three in a nutshell30 January 2021
  50. Does selfishness kill us?16 June 2020
  51. Step Three in a nutshell9 June 2020
  52. What matters and what is in God's hands27 November 2019
  53. Enacting Step Three on a daily basis18 November 2019
  54. Step Three, Tradition Three, Concept Three23 January 2019
  55. Step Three. What a relief!27 December 2018
  56. The car won't start19 November 2018
  57. Concept VI18 July 2018
  58. What do I have to do?12 December 2017
  59. A new Employer18 November 2017
  60. Chapter Five 'honesty' and emergency procedures for newcomers and people in trouble17 November 2017
  61. But I haven't got the grit, wit, or wherewithal to stay sober!9 November 2017
  62. A helpful reminder from Chuck C.18 August 2017
  63. Turning it over25 July 2017
  64. Conceptions of God16 June 2017
  65. It's not about the past27 April 2017
  66. Wild self-abandonment19 December 2016
  67. The first three Steps for the purposes of ad hoc inventory31 October 2016
  68. The cold truth of Step Three31 October 2016
  69. The brutal simplicity of Step Three8 June 2016
  70. Augen zu und durch27 October 2015
  71. Taking Step Three28 September 2015
  72. Third column. So what?22 February 2015
  73. Al-Anon—Step Three1 January 2015
  74. The failure of self-reliance13 May 2014
  75. The first three Steps on problems other than alcohol28 December 2013
  76. Staying close to God29 March 2013
  77. Is wanting bad?10 December 2012
  78. What is my own business I'm supposed to be minding?9 May 2012
  79. Arrangements that refuse to stay put12 April 2012
  80. True ambition29 December 2011
  81. The main problem of the alcoholic ...18 August 2011
  82. The Step Three idea3 June 2011
  83. Step Three—moving from management to shop floor17 May 2011
  84. The cardinal error of the recovered alcoholic16 February 2011
  85. The great delusion and the catapult23 January 2011
  86. Grace and ignorance30 December 2010
  87. Burning barns and hugging bears: the myth of 'taking your will back'19 October 2010
  88. Fear: the early-warning system (for the slip from God's grace)19 June 2010
  89. A Step Three Requirement Inventory15 June 2010
  90. An exercise for re-approaching Step Four29 April 2010
  91. Alcoholism in 100 words5 April 2010