Step 11 and into 12

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.

So in Step 11 we grew our relationship to God (a Power greater than ourselves) because we spent time focused on discussion with and then listening to this Power. We learned from references to the Back to Basics program http://www.aabacktobasics.org/ that our spiritual awakening has been happening all along and the we have had Help to take personal inventory and as a matter of fact, we have been receiving Spiritual help since we recognized in step 1 that we were powerless over our situation. We have tried to do daily inventories and set things straight immediately (or at least expressed ourselves somehow) as our emotional condition starting getting out of hand. Two way prayer, to varying degrees has started us on a path to Spiritual Freedom. The world and its ways will ever interfere but God's hand (a Power) in our lives is directing us more and more to the areas of life that matter (who we are, purpose, service, love, truth, faith, the moment, right relationship, RECOVERY) and away from those things that have us ever-comparing our worldliness to the less fortunate souls around us by demonstrating our power, property, prestige and lifestyle.

Now we take a somewhat more spiritually mature being (you or me) into the arena of life with a much greater purpose "to give away this Spirituality that we have been graced with, by finding those who suffer as we do and sharing our stories with them". God's magic (a Power greater than our self) will surely do the rest.

One of the Serenity Program 12 step commentators uses 1 Corinthians 15:10 in a sharing on step 12 where Paul says "But for the grace of God I am what I am..." Each and everyone one of us has a very special purpose and those of us in 12 step recovery have been blessed with a roadmap for sharing our recovery blessings with others.

"Lord please grant us the energy, sense of purpose and determination to seek out and share our common burdens and solutions with those who are still outside of recovery and may Your will be done in every life we touch. Amen!"

Its all about sharing now!!