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1/28/2016 0 Comments Recording For January 28, 2016(week 113) 28 January 2016 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions Workshop
AA Big Book: page 72 Step Seven: ‘Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.’ Call back: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# Summary of the steps dial the same main number adding for part 1: pin no. 235934# for part 2 pin no. 578290# If you wish to donate towards the upkeep of the website send this to: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 NOTE: Sue is compiling a brand new members’ list so if you would like to be included whether you are an existing or new member please send your name, phone number, time zone and if you wish, times to call, along with your email to: [email protected] If you do not have email, telephone her on: 434 987 4349 AA 12 x 12 Step 7 page 72 entire first paragraph: ‘Certainly no alcoholic, and surely no member of AA.,..’until ‘..Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted.’ soul work look up: deprecate, demanding, oblivion. Q1a). Are you still demanding from God, from others, from programs, fellowships, security, prestige and romance? Use your own categories where you may be over-demanding of people places and things. b) If you are, how is it working for you? When we do get to step eight you can bring this question to quiet time. Who or what am I demanding more than you want to give me? God is in charge. If you are asking more than God wants you to have then it is going to backfire. In adversity people and substances cannot give me comfort. They just become a problem and a distraction. Only God can give that comfort to me. I was demanding from food what food was never meant to do. It was meant to fuel my body not give me emotional comfort. I have asked you many times the step two proposition: What areas of your life are not working? What are you not giving to life? This is where you need to look at making amends. Every step interchanges with each other. Q2. I teach people how to treat me. Write on this. The opposite of gratitude and humility is demanding more than your share. This sums up steps six and seven.
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1/21/2016 0 Comments Recording For January 21, 2016(week 112) 21 January 2016 12 Step Big Book All Addictions workshop
AA Big Book: page 70 Step Seven: ‘Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.’ A special welcome if you are new to the group. If you would like to receive the members’ list and weekly soul work, please e-mail: [email protected] For the recording: 641 715 3900 pin Tuesday call back pin no. 298913# Summary of the steps dial the same main number adding for part 1: pin no. 235934# for part 2 pin no. 578290# 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 from second paragraph: ‘Humility, as a word and as an ideal…’ until end of first paragraph page 71 ’…Solely by their own intelligence and labor, men will have shaped their own destiny.’ Soul work Q1. Commit to calling one person on the Big Book members’ list this week. If you do not have the list ask Sue to send you one: [email protected] Steps eight and nine are about building bridges and you are going to need support. Stephanie will be right beside us but we need one another. So call somebody different on the members’ list. We need to build community.This cannot be a cohesive group if we do not call one another. [We are all more alike than different which is why we need each other. What I struggle with you struggle with. The more we think we are different the more we separate ourselves. That said, we have to be careful as people get co-dependent and want to fix us. Instead we need to let God help us to come to the other side.] Many people do steps four and five but not steps eight and nine because of pride and fear. Behind every fear is pride. The counter to pride is giving God the credit. Q2.What did you used to think abundance, security and personal satisfaction looked like? Write about your evolution. Any amount: a paragraph, ten pages, it does not matter. Own your experience. If you would like to read it to the group next week we would love to hear it. Own this: ‘There will be such abundance that …………. (write your name here) can have all the security and personal satisfaction she desires’. 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. 1/7/2016 0 Comments Recording For January 7, 2016(week 110) 7 Jan 2015 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions workshop
AA Big Book: page 76 Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. If you are new to the group: welcome! If you would like 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 Soul work AA Big Book: page 76 Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” ‘Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all – every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing. ‘When ready, we say something like this: “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.” We have then completed Step Seven.’ Q1. In the second paragraph wherever the word ‘you’ appears write above it ‘God’. Q2. Write this down: TIME: Things I Must Experience. [And remember: it is God’s timing not ours]. Q2a). Look up: usefulness. b) What does it look like to be useful to God, to yourself, to your family, to others such as your community, work, church, town, country, the larger context? Write on this. Amen means: so be it; I stand on this; this is what I want. God I am making a pact with You. It is a very powerful word. You are going into agreement with what you have just said. Shame and Guilt. Stephanie: Shame kept me stuck. Definition that I use for shame is: God you made a mistake in making me. Guilt is: I am not a mistake God, I made a mistake. I don’t have shame today as I have a loving God who loved me in the womb and wants me whether or not my parents do. So shame is denying God wanted me to be created. I do know that God wants me to admit when I make a mistake, but not to believe I am a mistake. I am never a mistake in God’s eyes. I am very, very precious. |
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