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“The point is, that we were willing to grow along spiritual lines.” (BB p.60) – This may be our Mission Statement. The twelfth step may be our Statement of Purpose and has three points, 1) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, 2) we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
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“Silence is God’s first language.” -John of the Cross, 16th century Christian mystic Some time ago, I conceded to my innermost self, I am an addict. Once on this path, the step work was laid out for me. I cleaned house and began to trust God. I began working with others. I prayed daily. But
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The tenth step as discussed in the Big Book is not just about taking inventory once a day. It’s about taking our own inventory constantly as we walk through the day. It’s as if we were above ourselves, watching ourselves having a human experience, making the mistakes that all humans make. The difference between other
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Up to now I have been walking hand in hand with a recovered sponsor on a path to freedom. I have likely developed a close bond with another man or woman in the program and have hope that this program will work for me too. I have begun to have spiritual experiences, but the time
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Until now the steps have been preparing me for a level of humility beyond my conception: a level of humility before God and God’s kids that truly sets me free to live in the sunlight of the spirit. Admitting my powerlessness – and doing some work to access that power – I now must humble
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For years, my greatest character defect and shortcoming was my addiction, and it has now been suppressed. It’s been arrested and I no longer suffer from two of addiction’s symptoms – loss of control after I start (Physical) and an inability to stay away from the first one no matter how great the necessity or
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In the Big Book, Step Six is one small paragraph between our completion of Step Five, when we return home, and our readiness to approach God in Step Seven and humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings. “If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as
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I hear the same answer from someone who has just relapsed: “I was working on my fourth step.” It reminds me of Jim’s story in “More About Alcoholism”. Our Big book tells us that Jim admitted that he was an alcoholic. He even had much knowledge of the condition. However, he found himself drunk because
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Step Four directs us to “Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves,” but without the steps immediately preceding this step and the steps that follow this step, we are surely to experience the ‘nil’ results indicated in the instruction portion of the book aptly named “How It Works.” Step One is just the beginning
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“Being convinced we were at Step Three, which is we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.” Pg. 60 in the Big Book This is a lofty goal for alcoholics and addicts. We have been living only to benefit us and our addictions. Turning our will and
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