Is there anyone in the present or distant past, who expressed his/her being hurt as a result of something we've said or done. Now the "hurt" is not to be qualified here and this is key! Reason-someone is wounded, what matter why, the wound needs to be attended to with loving care. Only this love can set the person free to heal! All else will cause the wound to grow as a metastatic cancer, which untreated will almost always result in death!
I believe somehow, that we who inflict, also carry the festering wound until the inflicted is freed of its poison (Scott's thoughts)
Steps 9+10 seem ever so important in light of the above!!
12 Steps to Spiritual Recovery!
1- We admitted we were powerless over our problems 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 God.
4- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7- Humbly asked God 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.
My old friend George
11- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His 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.
