My Thoughts on Step Eleven
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact
with God, as we understood Him praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out.
A
spiritual awakening is just an awareness that there is a power greater than
oneself thank God or founders made sure we could pick our own higher power I
know I would not have stayed in recovery if I had to use the God I thought I
knew the condemning and judging one
I
found that the prayer of St Francis gave me the strength to accept the new God
the fellowship put into my life For it is truly by self-forgetting that one
finds It is by forgiving that one is forgiven powerful words self-forgetting
To
me it meant I had to get out of my selfish ways and practice a new way of life
learning how to forgive and also learn how to accept forgiveness from others
that I have hurt along the path of my life hiding in the bottle of booze
Step
eleven is prayer and meditation prayer is simply asking for Gods help
meditation is listening to what He has to say the way I listen to God is thru
the group of drunks at my home group were people know me and are willing to
help me with any situation that comes up
When
I think I know all the answers then I am in trouble I had to surrender to
everything the worst place I can ever go for answers is going into my own head
alone where all the crap of my past still lays in wait to mug me when I go there
alone
Prayer
and meditation came with humility of my letting go of my old ways and trusting
god will give me back all the good things in my life and He would not lead me
down the wrong path even if the right path is cluttered with the debris of my
mistakes
Today
I know in my heart that God can do for me all the things I could not do for
myself all I needed to do is pray rightly that is asking for His will to be
done in my life this takes action like working with our fellow alcoholics who
are still in out there
Practicing
all the twelve steps in my new life and accepting all my past faults being
willing to change them all being willing to make all the amends for my mistakes
for all those who I had hurt when in a drunken fog also learning to forgive others
who hurt me
I
had to learn how to practice all Twelve Steps in my daily life just like so
many before me had to its hard to let go but once I did my life improved a
little the things got better for me because things did not baffle me like they
did when I was Godless
Carrying
the message is the basics of recovery to us all who seek a new life what I do
to carry the message is very simple because I stick to the basics of AA
sobriety is all about my disease of alcoholism that is not cured and never will
be
If
I stray to far for the teachings I will be lost again to suffer the misery of
my past all of the answers are with in me but are because of God and all the
wonderful people in aa willing to help me go thru the turmoil and always
willing to share one on one with me
God
does answer all our prayers but you know sometimes the answer is NO if your
patient and willing to listen to God he will guide you to the right place in
your life Join the millions of others who have found a new way of life trusting
in Him and the steps join us on the road to that happy road to your destiny
Just let go and let God
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