Releasing what was never mine to control; Embracing what is mine to enjoy.
Refresher: An AA in a meeting I attend developed a way to start working the Twelve Steps – using The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. I am passing along what I am working
Taking the 12th step in AA shows us how to work the steps again – this time with more knowledge of how dangerous and deceptive our disease is and how powerful and personal the twelve steps are, and our Higher Power
Every time I read through Step Four in the 12 &12 at a meeting, I kinda wind up thinking: “Oh, I could have done the last inventory better.” Deciphering the sidebar notes I scribble on the side — the counsel
Every time I come to it, Step Seven reminds me to practice what I say I believe. Humbly asked God to remove these defects of character. Because I believe what people told me about alcoholism — it is a three-fold
Celebrating then Taking Step One Right after celebrating an anniversary, reviewing Step One makes sense. So, opening my 12 & 12, I also see it is an annotated copy, filled with good stuff that I heard at the meetings –
I am not great at meditating. However, Step 11 is maintenance work, keeping my sobriety and serenity secure for the day. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him praying only for knowledge of
A Recent Meeting Enables a Meditation At a recent meeting on Step Five, from The 12 & 12 someone said, “whatever you do, don’t camp on Step Four!” One, because working the steps always brings us right back to begin
Whoever invented steps, invented a good thing, but a risky thing. Because of them, we get to use space once inaccessible to us. I see an analogy to working the program: navigating the steps help me into places of emotional
Whew . . . we are on the eleventh step! It’s a perch from whence we can see how far we’ve come, knowing that, step by step, day by day, we have more to learn, do, and be. By now,