"...We were created to establish human relations (parents, then friends, then a spouse, then children) all to model and develop our relationship with G-d..."

I’m just a simple Jew, but one thing I have been working on a lot over this past year is being thankful to Hashem.

STEP ONE - We admitted we were powerless over [acting out]- that our lives had become unmanageable.

The Big Book explains that the reason we choose to act out stems from the initial feeling of RID; being restless, irritable, or discontent. It follows that unless we find something to substitute those feelings, we will never be satisfied.

STEP TWO- ‘Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity’

Albert Einstein once said, ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them’. Step two is how we begin to change our thoughts in an attempt to change our lives.

Before moving on to step two, there are certain truths we must be willing to admit to ourselves. 

"Where you are going is much more important than where you are coming from."

"...our addiction was growing, but so was the "acceptance" and resignation of our condition growing along with it."

Do any of these statements ring true?  "Why can't it just go away!" "Why do I keep falling!?" "It's like I am two different people...One side of me hates this, yet I keep coming back to it."

What it really means to 'make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God of our understanding' as illustrated by a story.