Am I willing to accept new healthy self-responsibility? No one to blame any more for my lousy feelings; getting ready through the amending step to accept full responsibility for what I see as the wreckage of my past.
Now a prayer to help "Oh Lord I now give you my full acceptance of who I am and how I arrived here. Without blaming a soul for my past, I am asking for whatever I need to move on and be of service to You and my fellow man. Show me clearly where and to whom my life will be of value. Amen!"
FREEDOM lurks as the process happens, I believe, ever pulling us through the steps to seek out and be part of someone else's recovery. My Serenity Program (Serenity A Companion For 12 Step Recovery) adds another dimension to the amending process where the writer says quote "In Step 9 we extend the hand of reconciliation to those who have wronged us...." This tells me there is more to amends than a wordy smoothing out of the past; I must seek out and possibly take part in the improving of the quality of life, even of those who have harmed me. Oh there again lurks FREEDOM!!
If you are a scripture lover like myself-check out Philemon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Philemon. Our Serenity Program refers to this scripture in discussing this amending process to include those who have harmed us
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