All Addictions
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6/23/2016 0 Comments Recording For June 23, 2016(week 233) 23 June 2016 12 Step Study All Addictions Big Book workshop Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.” To join the members list, be sent the soul work and/or if you would like a buddy, contact: [email protected] 8am EST Tuesdays workshop (same tel. no.) studying Bill W’s biography ’Pass It On’ . callback: 641 715 3900 pin 298913# If you would like to contact Stephanie [email protected] Donations are urgently needed towards the cost of the website. Please send to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.” Big Book page 76, beginning of third paragraph: ‘Now we need more action, without which we find that “Faith without works is dead.” Let’s look at Steps Eight and Nine. We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal..” 12 x 12 Page 77. Step 8. Soul work Q1. Re-read your 4th step. And ask God: How did I hurt/harm this person? You see where you were selfish and how you acted out. You may have cut the person out of your life, been nasty and you may have gossiped. You will see whether you were dishonest, and your self-seeking behaviour – that is the harm right there. Pray pray pray to have the right attitude to make these amends. It is only by talking about specific issues that we get to the general principle. In this case we go to the specific on the card and we get to the bigger principle. Step 8 is all about coming into willingness to make amends to them all. 12 x 12 page 77: First paragraph page 77 Soul work: We consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.’ Q1. Put a bracket around this and beside it: write GOAL [We live in reality. We learnt from our mistakes so that today we can live in the best possible relationship with every human being we know]. Q2. Continue writing 3 x 5 cards – and if you would like to, share them with your buddy or buddy group. [Let God work through the group. Of course no feedback. How does it sound to you when you read it aloud? Keep going to God asking: Is that what they need to hear from me?] Q3. If you were to make an amends today what is your motive? Keep checking your motive and keep going to your God and your buddy group. Questions Again, good generalship, if there is question, perhaps about what you want to say or whether you have hurt and harmed someone, bring the 3 x 5 card to me either at the workshop or off-line one to one: [email protected] The main question to ask is: God show me what you want me to know about this amend. And I guarantee God will show up. Amends: We are only in the preparation stage and it is where we bring our recovery from the inside to the outside and into the world. You are telling people: I am in a recovery programme, I am working on myself, I see that I harmed you in this particular way. Amends need to be done with the utmost wisdom. Amends is not just a quick: I am so sorry. To say that will hurt them even more than not saying anything. It needs to be done with the right heart. That is why I am going to belabor Step 8. Just like step 7 where you really saw you were the problem, and our mistaken thinking was the problem. In all our relationships in our whole life – it has been our mistaken thinking. Now we have tools to learn from those past mistakes and to really become women of wisdom. So in Step 8 we go very very slow and cautious. in step 8, If God puts somebody in my path I had forgotten, I can say: Can I speak to you privately for a few minutes? Then say: I am in a 12 step recovery programme and when I knew you in high school I was really really fearful and unhappy and I was jealous of you and I was not kind to you and I am really sorry for that. Today if you came into my life I would not treat you like that but I hope you accept my amends. And that is it.
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