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1/14/2016 0 Comments Recording For January 14, 2016(week111) 14 January 2016 12-StepStudy Big Book all addictions workshop
AA Big Book: page 70 Step Seven: ‘Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings’. If you are new to the group: welcome! To receive the members’ list and weekly soul work, please e-mail: [email protected] If you wish to donate towards the upkeep of the website send to: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 AA 12 x 12 Step 7 page 70 Soul work No God No Peace. Know God Know Peace, Joy, Surrender, Wisdom, Sobriety. Look up: humble, remove, adversity Humbly is an attitude. Also an action for which I make an action plan. I can have a positive attitude yet if I don’t act on it it is just an attitude. So humbly is an attitude first then an action through our action plans with God. ‘Him’ is God. Above ‘shortcomings’ write ‘mistakes.’ For me, mistakes says it better. When I am impatient I have a mistaken idea, its a mistake of my thought process. I am not a bad person. God loves me and I am still loveable. I have had mistaken thinking and acted mistakenly. God gives me the ability to erase my mistakes: To realise I have made a mistake. 2) Ability to admit it to God, myself and to my accountability partner. 3) To go to the person I have had the mistaken thinking with and make amends. Q1. Take the sentence: ‘Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings’ a)Write on each word: humbly, asked, God, to remove, our mistakes. What does the sentence mean? Own it. [I just shared my thoughts with you, what are yours?] Q2. a) Bill is saying that attaining greater humility is the foundation principle of each of AA’s twelve steps. Do you believe that? b) Bill says that without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Write about that sentence and really think about it like I have just done. It is a pretty heavy duty statement. I hope I have given you enough time to think about it. [I cannot believe how power packed even one word is….] ‘Nearly all AA have found, too, that unless they develop much more of of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven’t much chance of becoming truly happy’ a) Write ‘humility’ above ‘quality’. b) Write ‘peaceful’ above the word ‘happy’. What is happiness? But peace in the face of my own death, I have beloved family members who are facing death. Peace when a child is in drugs, alcoholic, breaking our hearts, not having much to do with you. What is happiness [compared to] peace? I am not rewriting the 12 x 12 just giving you my experience. ‘Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.’ Write ‘humility’ above the second word: ‘it.’ Humility means knowing how much I need God. My new slogan is: I am going to God for the Truth.
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