Practising the principles of the other 11 steps may keep me spiritual enough to reach out in pain and make the difference in a life. If I don't work it (the program), on an ongoing basis, I will not have the emotional energy to reach out and the system of share and heal is interrupted until kick-started again-usually as a result of someone reaching my way or by the magic of a meeting. So it sounds to me as I share this concept, that the best way to stay in touch and in tune, is to practise step 10 (Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it) daily, to keep the program in my face. This way I will be ever-capable of practising the principles in all my affairs. The concept of this step, that is, the concept of CONTINUING to practise, may be the glue that keeps it all together as we work the program long term.
A commentator of step 12 in the Serenity Program makes the comment "because we go to God, we are free p
from other people's control and power over our lives. Now we can freely choose to do whatever it takes to share the message of God's love..." I believe that every time we share the pain of recovery, we are in fact sharing God's love with the listener(s) and thereby serving our God!
Are we free enough to be the healers God designed us to be, or are we tied so tightly to our self-centred problems that we are paralyzed. More prayer and remembering we cannot do it alone (people as well as God are required) is where I start. I must reach out because someone else has already reached the "I cannot reach out stage" and her/his recovery hinges on this Spiritual connection. Effort to reach out must be MONUMENTAL to save those who have temporarily crossed the line....
LEARN TWO-WAY PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL SURVIVAL (NOT ONLY YOURS, BUT OTHERS AS WELL). THIS CANNOT WAIT AS IT IS SURELY THE QUICKEST WAY TO FIND HOPE. MAYBE SOMEONE YOU KNOW WILL ONLY GET THIS HOPE IF YOU BRING IT TO THEM!!
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12 Steps to Spiritual Recovery!
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)
Various Claims of Promise from 12 Steppers
1-We will find ourselves worthy of love and able to love others. We will not lose ourselves.
2-Courage and fellowship will replace fear.
3-Our lives will yield hope to share with others.
4-We will come to know the vastness of our emotions without being in slavery to them.
5-Learning to forgive, we will no longer be bound by our secrets to live in shame.
6-Serenity and peace will have meaning for us.
7-We will allow our lives and the lives of those we love to flow day by day with spiritual ease, balance and grace.
8-Attitude and outlook will be renewed.
9-Intuition will guide us to handle situations that were impossible in the past.
10-We will not regret the past recognizing its value for other sufferers.
11-Selfish interests will fall away as we gain interest in others.
12-Faith and gratitude will replace fear as we realize that a Greater Power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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)
Various Claims of Promise from 12 Steppers
1-We will find ourselves worthy of love and able to love others. We will not lose ourselves.
2-Courage and fellowship will replace fear.
3-Our lives will yield hope to share with others.
4-We will come to know the vastness of our emotions without being in slavery to them.
5-Learning to forgive, we will no longer be bound by our secrets to live in shame.
6-Serenity and peace will have meaning for us.
7-We will allow our lives and the lives of those we love to flow day by day with spiritual ease, balance and grace.
8-Attitude and outlook will be renewed.
9-Intuition will guide us to handle situations that were impossible in the past.
10-We will not regret the past recognizing its value for other sufferers.
11-Selfish interests will fall away as we gain interest in others.
12-Faith and gratitude will replace fear as we realize that a Greater Power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
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