The answer we find in the last three Steps is entirely different and entirely new. Our will,
our wants, our desires, don’t go away. Instead, when they arise we watch them. We ask for help,
knowing we are powerless to deal with them. We determine what it is that our Higher Power
seems to want us to do And then, suitably empowered, we do it … over and over and over
again. We have discovered how it is possible to want to do something, to want to do it very
badly, and yet not do it. We have discovered how it is possible to want to avoid doing
something, to avoid doing it at all costs, and yet to be able to do it. But that process is something
we must discover continuously. We “are not cured … [w]hat we really have is a daily reprieve
contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.” The reprieve may be daily. But the
so-called “maintenance” – the business of watching our own will and asking instead for our
Higher Power’s will for us – must be undertaken continuously – for the rest of our lives.
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