'Step 3,'& 3rd step prayers, llustrated!
Art, Videos, and step 3 Prayers
for all program members on a 12 step journey.
for all program members on a 12 step journey.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
"God" as we understood Him, Her, Creator, It....
A third step spiritual woman depicted by Moore College of Art and Design, student project, for our project
New Age or Spiritual not religious understanding is a prevailing theme in recovery.
AA Third / 3rd Step Prayer
Anonymous God, I offer myself to Thee-
To build with me
and to do with me as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self,
that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties,
that victory over them may bear witness
to those I would help of Thy Power,
Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
May I do Thy will always!
Page 63, AA Big Book © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
To build with me
and to do with me as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self,
that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties,
that victory over them may bear witness
to those I would help of Thy Power,
Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
May I do Thy will always!
Page 63, AA Big Book © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
NA 3rd Step Prayer
God Take my will and my life. Guide me in my recovery. Show me how to live.
Simple and modern...& you can use it as an instant meditation.
Wondering where God went?
Simple and modern...& you can use it as an instant meditation.
Wondering where God went?
Step 3: and all 12 steps; a proven path to a
"Spiritual Awakening" for everyone !
With "Spiritual" as YOU define it!
"Spiritual Awakening" for everyone !
With "Spiritual" as YOU define it!
Dali - Christ mandala, a Christian meditation focus point. By Paul at mandalas.com for The Twelve Steps
A novel yet ancient thought on turning will & life over:
All recovery is spiritual, but step 3 more-so, is a challenge to the mystical.
Mystic; Greek μυστικός or mystikos, means 'an initiate', which many are when reaching the third step. Here we make a decision based on our second step experience.
To crave an intimate, consuming, radical, no half measure
step 3, is the beginning of becoming a mystic!
I.e. knowledge of, and especially a far deeper and more personal experience of God.
This usually includes states of consciousness, actions like increased prayer and levels of being that are intimate and indescribable.
Thus; is step 3 anything less than a mystical ascent? What was my "decision" in step 3, surrender or did I hold back to some extent? The mystic surrenders with joy.
Al Anon prayers presented on our Al Anon page.
All recovery is spiritual, but step 3 more-so, is a challenge to the mystical.
Mystic; Greek μυστικός or mystikos, means 'an initiate', which many are when reaching the third step. Here we make a decision based on our second step experience.
To crave an intimate, consuming, radical, no half measure
step 3, is the beginning of becoming a mystic!
I.e. knowledge of, and especially a far deeper and more personal experience of God.
This usually includes states of consciousness, actions like increased prayer and levels of being that are intimate and indescribable.
Thus; is step 3 anything less than a mystical ascent? What was my "decision" in step 3, surrender or did I hold back to some extent? The mystic surrenders with joy.
Al Anon prayers presented on our Al Anon page.
Modern Gothic music-video, or step 3 prayer?
One AA step 3
or universal 3rd step prayer:
The Prayer of Francis (of Assisi)
o Let us start by looking to a worldwide classical prayer, as a meditation.
This is the prayer of Francis, a young monk and mystic, living in medieval Italy.
Let us read his famous petition to the God of his understanding, but as a meditation, one that many peoples around the world have shared for centuries. Francis, of Assisi Circa 1220 AD {Page 99 in the AA 12 ‘n 12}.
“Its author was a man who for several hundred years now has been rated as a saint. We won't be biased or scared off by that fact, because although he was not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional wringer. And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:
"Lord, make me a channel of your peace--
that where there is hatred, I may bring
love--
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness--
that where there is discord, I may bring
harmony--
that where there is error, I may bring
truth--
that where there is doubt, I may bring
faith--
that where there is despair, I may bring hope--
that where there are shadows, I may bring light--
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted-
-to understand, than to be understood--
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to eternal Life.
“Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the carriers. Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.” AA 12 'n 12
or universal 3rd step prayer:
The Prayer of Francis (of Assisi)
o Let us start by looking to a worldwide classical prayer, as a meditation.
This is the prayer of Francis, a young monk and mystic, living in medieval Italy.
Let us read his famous petition to the God of his understanding, but as a meditation, one that many peoples around the world have shared for centuries. Francis, of Assisi Circa 1220 AD {Page 99 in the AA 12 ‘n 12}.
“Its author was a man who for several hundred years now has been rated as a saint. We won't be biased or scared off by that fact, because although he was not an alcoholic he did, like us, go through the emotional wringer. And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:
"Lord, make me a channel of your peace--
that where there is hatred, I may bring
love--
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness--
that where there is discord, I may bring
harmony--
that where there is error, I may bring
truth--
that where there is doubt, I may bring
faith--
that where there is despair, I may bring hope--
that where there are shadows, I may bring light--
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted-
-to understand, than to be understood--
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to eternal Life.
“Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the carriers. Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.” AA 12 'n 12
Crescent Moon for Muslim/Islam, Peace sign, male / female, Star of David, Wiccan, Yin Yang, and Cross/Christian
3rd Step "God of your understanding"
Buddhist and Egyptian book of the dead, in ink
William D. Wilkerson, work done by Matt W. Scorpion studio in Houston, Texas.
My right leg bears the trigram of Body, Speech & Mind; the three elements through which enlightenment should flow to maximize the practice of Buddhism.
My left leg dermagraphic is a prayer from the Egyptian Book of the Dead "May I look upon my shadow and my soul"
The 12 Steps, Step 3, Egyptian Book of the dead, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, God of our understanding.
NA Just For Today,
a 3rd Step Prayer focused in the here and now
JUST FOR TODAY my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of drugs.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have faith in someone in N.A. who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have a program. I will try to follow it to the best of my ability.
JUST FOR TODAY through N.A. I will try to get a better perspective on my life.
JUST FOR TODAY I will be unafraid, my thoughts will be on my new associations, people who are not using and who have found a new way of life. So long as I follow that way, I have nothing to fear.
a 3rd Step Prayer focused in the here and now
JUST FOR TODAY my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of drugs.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have faith in someone in N.A. who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have a program. I will try to follow it to the best of my ability.
JUST FOR TODAY through N.A. I will try to get a better perspective on my life.
JUST FOR TODAY I will be unafraid, my thoughts will be on my new associations, people who are not using and who have found a new way of life. So long as I follow that way, I have nothing to fear.
This Hindu Goddess rises above addiction and a field of red opium poppies, (addictions)
Hindu step 3 art.
Goddess rising over red poppies (Opium) and it's downfalls.
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 12 Steps, Step 3, God can be seen in your "compassion" |  12 Steps, Step 3, Jewish. made a decision... A young man or woman in their Bar/Bas Mitzfa identifies with God, as a young person. |
In Buddhist, Hindu, Bön, and Jainism. this mountain is considered to be the abode of Lord Shiva and a place of eternal bliss. Offered as a non-theistic Step 3 example.
The 12 Steps, Buddhist, In a Hindu or Buddhist third step Mount Kailash (also Mount Kailas; Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ,is a part of one's image of a Higher Power.
A God of our understanding might be a force, with "helpers", versus angles, as in Buddhist philosophy..
Note: the 5th precept is to abstain from all intoxicants or enlightenment is subdued.
Note: the 5th precept is to abstain from all intoxicants or enlightenment is subdued.
Our video demonstrates the original 12 step principles, by a famous mystic & ascetic named Benedict 1500 years ago.
These principles parallel our modern steps - and sometimes are the same !
They exemplify ages old principles in a 3rd step.
These principles parallel our modern steps - and sometimes are the same !
They exemplify ages old principles in a 3rd step.
AA, NA, Al Anon: a step 3 "God," Power, Creator or whatever your belief be...!
We turn our will and life over...
 12 Steps, Step 3,Spiritual and possibly religious, a God of your understanding |  OM a sound that "IS" conscious contact |
The Trust Prayer,
A modern step 3 "surrender in humility" prayer
"Higher Power, I've learned to trust your guidance, yet I still have my own ideas about how I want to live my life. Let me share those ideas with you, and then let me clearly understand your will for me. In the end, let your will, not mine, be done."
Just For Today: December 4 p354 na.org
Or your editors favorite quote: from The Twelve Steps Quotes
Lord, make me chaste, just not yet!
Augustine
Or: “Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
A modern step 3 "surrender in humility" prayer
"Higher Power, I've learned to trust your guidance, yet I still have my own ideas about how I want to live my life. Let me share those ideas with you, and then let me clearly understand your will for me. In the end, let your will, not mine, be done."
Just For Today: December 4 p354 na.org
Or your editors favorite quote: from The Twelve Steps Quotes
Lord, make me chaste, just not yet!
Augustine
Or: “Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
Step 3, Enlighten, Yoga, power centers, Chakras
Hindu chakrasand OM Paul at mandalas.com
Above "OM"
Om or a chant / Katta, can be used during the sleepless nights of detox and thereafter, or in a third step or for the 11 step re prayer and meditation.
At Wat Thamkrabok, a Thai Buddhist monastery, the monks teach the alcoholics and addicts a personalized chant to be used when anxious or when tempted. The "guests" then go on to take "Sajja" a sacred vow to never use again.
Om or a chant / Katta, can be used during the sleepless nights of detox and thereafter, or in a third step or for the 11 step re prayer and meditation.
At Wat Thamkrabok, a Thai Buddhist monastery, the monks teach the alcoholics and addicts a personalized chant to be used when anxious or when tempted. The "guests" then go on to take "Sajja" a sacred vow to never use again.
Step 3, Ascetics, or self-denial for spiritual gain
The mystic knot, or the endless knot. The more esoteric or spiritual meaning of this symbol eludes to beginnings and endings
The mystic knot, or the endless knot. The more esoteric or spiritual meaning of this symbol eludes to beginnings and endings
 Celtic Knots, symbolic of mystical beginnings and endings | Ascetics or asceticism is an ancient term that we pause here to introduce, as recovery is a series of ascetic acts. Asceticism is hard spiritual labor. Be it prayer, making coffee, covering yourself in mud and living in a cave as some Hindu monks do, or throwing yourself in a freezing stream in January in ancient Ireland. People have gone to great lengths to improve conscious contact and turning will and life over since time immortal. All lead to the spiritual awakening or stem form a desire to increase conscious contact,
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 OF OUR UNDERSTANDING, IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING, 12 Step program Step 3, or be as religious as you want?!
|  The 12 Steps, Step 3, God can be inter-faith or any faith or no faith |
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