Sharing Day

Building up to step5 and thnking a lot about functioning when away down in the dumps.
While asking in prayer for some help about this (I was praying /writing, praying/writing everything that came into my head) the thought "share it in the blog" appeared to which I said "how" and the next thought which hung around for a while was "1-12" over and over. I figured it meant using the 12 steps, but I did not have total peace about the answer so prayed some more and the thought changed slightly (not the sound of it to my mind) to "1,2,12". Now I looked at those 3 steps and what they said to me at the time was:

1-I was Powerless
2-found the Power (God for me)
12-Share the Power

For me it meant when I was hurting, I must share with someone else in troule. That person will show up somehow and my situation will come in line. It was also a manageable feat at the time to focus on the simplicity of the message rather than to be trying to think about the whole program as a solution. This sort of thing happens often to me when I am really working my program!
Steps from www.SharingTheBurden.ca
12 Steps
1-We admitted we were powerless over others-that our lives had become unmanageable.
2-Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3-Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of that Power.
4-Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5-Admitted to this Power, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6-Were entirely ready to have this Power remove all these defects of character.
7-Humbly asked the Power to remove our shortcomings.
8-Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9-Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10-Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11-Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with this Power, praying only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
12-Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs. (Many 12 step programs use the word God where we have written Power)