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4/30/2019 0 Comments Recording For April 30, 201912 Step All Addictions Big Book Study Workshop (Week 34)
April 30, 2019 Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul Work This Week Reference: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Page 12, paragraph 5: "My friend suggested..." to page 13, end of paragraph 2, "I have not had a drink since." Definitions: Look up unreservedly, ruthlessly Workshop group question: Q: Describe what humble willingness looks like to you? Give an example in your life right now, from this week or last week, or what comes to mind right now? Buddy Questions 1. Did you use the concept of the triangle this week? Did you bring this up to God, and how is that going? Did you use your community, your fellowship? Was it a give and take? Did you give in your community, and take in your community? Do you see the value of living in sobriety with this triangle concept? 2. How did you do with your willingness to believe in and go to a higher power this week? Give a concrete example of how you were willing to believe in that power. How did you act that out? 3. What does the word "complete" mean to you when it comes to "complete" willingness? 4. How are you doing with building a complete foundation? 5. Where is your pride and prejudice against admitting you're powerless? Where is your pride and prejudice against your need for God? Are you convinced that God is concerned with you? 6. Have you ever had that moment where you knew how much you needed God? 7. How long has it been for you since you had that moment you needed and wanted God, and made that decision to let God in? Do you tend to rest on your laurels? 8. In your life this week, did you experience a sense of God's presence being blotted out by you doing it on your own? 9. Do you realize that you may not be living in blindness anymore? That you really do know how powerless you are and need a God of your understanding? Do you understand that you can pull the blinders down and go into your character defects? 10. How do you humbly offer yourself up to God? One time, once daily, multiple times daily? 11. Has your concept of God grown? How? What have you done to help it grow? 12. Do you believe that having a daily quiet time is imperative to help your relationship with God grow? 13. Look up "unreservedly." Is this a word you would say you are willing to use with your God? Write down: I, _________, place myself unreservedly under God's care and direction. Can you willingly say that? Or are you not there yet? Or are you there, but in reality, don't live it out all the time? Do you live it out? 14. Write this down: "I, _________, admit for the first time that of myself, I am nothing. Without God, I am lost." END
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4/23/2019 0 Comments Recording For April 23, 201912 Step All Addictions Big Book Study Workshop (Week 33)
April 23, 2019 Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul work this week: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Reference: Bill's Story, page 11, "But my friend..." to page 12, "Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning." Definitions: Miracle, antipathy, vestiges, prejudice Workshop group question: Q: What's your definition of a miracle? Has your idea of miracles changed? Have you experienced a miracle in your own life or someone else's? Buddy questions: 1. Can you make the same statement that, "God had done for him what he could not do for himself?" 2. Can you say your human will failed you? 3. Have you admitted complete defeat? 4. What is your action plan around complete defeat? 5. Have you been raised from the dead of addiction? 6. Would you say your life is better than life you've ever known? 7. Have you found yourself in Bill's situation sitting across from Ebby? 8. Paragraph 5, page, 11, "That floored me." Has your idea of miracles been drastically revised? 9. Are you on different footing? Do your roots grasp new soil, of a complete triangle, living day in, day out, in community with others and God being your Supreme Being? 10. Do you have a personal God? 11. Does having a personal God create animosity in you? 12. Are you resisting having a thought of a personal God to help you in your sobriety? 13. If you accept your powerlessness, how are you going to move? Write out a description to illustrate your powerlessness over _____________. 14. "Despite the living example of my friend..." page 12. Write about how we are now seeing Bill's fear, doubt and insecurity coming in saying, "you don't want to believe in God." 15. "I have since talked with scores of men who felt the same way," page 12. Are you one of those people? 16. Why don't you choose your own conception of God? 17. "I stood in the sunlight at last," page 12. What does that sentence mean? When did you have that awakening? What does it describe to you? 18. Are you willing to believe in a power greater than yourself? 19. Can you just be willing to believe? Group workshop question: See above. END 4/16/2019 0 Comments Recording For April 16, 201912 Step All Addictions Big Book Study Workshop
April 16, 2019 Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul work this week: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Reference: Bill's Story, page 9, last line, "He had come to pass his experience..." to page 11, "...the best he had ever known!" Definitions: contempt, atheist, cipher. Workshop group question: Write on the third paragraph on page 11. Can you make this same point-blank declaration: "God had done for him what he could not do for himself." How does it play itself out in your daily life? Buddy questions: 1. Add another part to the visual of the triangle. Along the bottom line, write: "100 percent honesty." Is there any area of your life where you are not being 100 percent honest? 2. Have you reached the point of coming to the end of yourself being dishonest? If yes, what are you being dishonest about, and who are you willing to tell? If no, will you be willing to pray for willingness to be honest? 3. Reading from the last line on page 9 to the top of page 10, do you care to have "this experience?" 4. Are you hopeless in any area of your life: money, relationships, friendships, family? Talk about it, bring it to quiet time, ask God how to make an action plan. 5. Write this down: An action plan with God and accountability is the antidote to hopelessness. Where do you need a plan? 6. Look up "contempt." Is there such a thing as good-natured contempt? 7. Do you have contempt for church folks in your past or now? Do you have an open mind? 8. Do you feel contempt for any group of people in our society today? 9. Contempt erodes fellowship. Write about this. 10. Look up "atheist." What is he talking about that few people really are atheist? 11. Why is it important to keep an open mind, on spiritual things, how to work the tools, and what sobriety is? 12. What is your definition of a Spirit of the Universe? Be specific. Who or what is your belief in? 13. How receptive was Bill going to be to Ebby? Write about his reaction. 14. Have you been able to admit "complete defeat?" What does that look like? 15. Question missing from last week's email: Write this down: "Willpower is important." We use our willpower to align ourselves with God's will. How do you do this? END 4/9/2019 1 Comment Recording For April 9, 2019(Week 31) 9 April 2019 12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop
Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul work this week: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Reference: Bill's Story, page 8, paragraph 2, "Trembling, I stepped..." to the bottom of page 9, last paragraph, "It worked!" Workshop writing: Do you understand that when living in all dimensions, (physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual), the byproduct is joy, peace and usefulness? Do you want it? How well are you living in the four dimensions? Definitions: Look up the words, "debauch," "oasis," "rant," "aghast." Buddy Questions 1. The fourth dimension of existence is when you have that surrender to using the triangle when life gives you a curve ball. Do you use the triangle? Do you want to have the fourth dimension (the spiritual) of existence? 2. Do you understand that in the four dimensions -- physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual -- the spiritual keeps the others in balance and harmony? Do you understand that the spiritual one is the one you let go of the easiest? 3. Our goal for our work is to be rocketed into the fourth dimension of a relationship with God. Do you want this? 4. "I was to know happiness, peace and usefulness in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes." Do you believe this statement? Own this sentence. Have you experienced it? Give me an example. 5. Are you truly sober today, body, mind and spirit, living in the fourth dimension? 6. Underline on page 9, "unmindful of his welfare." This is the definition of selfishness. When were you last unmindful of someone's welfare? Write out an example. 7. When was the last time you were mindful of someone else's welfare? Write out an example. 8. How do you relate to what Bill is saying on page 9 first paragraph, about the coming of "an oasis?" 9. What do you say when someone notices in you the "glowing," "something different," something about "the eyes?" 10. How many times have people in your life done something that has totally changed them? What was your response? 11. When was the last time you were cynical about someone in recovery? Write about it. 12. When was the last time you could have been judgmental and cynical, but were not, because you caught yourself? END 4/2/2019 0 Comments Recording For April 2, 2019(Week 30) 2 April 2019 12 Step All Addictions Big Book workshop
Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul work this week: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Reference: Bill's Story, page 8, first word "pride." Ending on page 8, "How dark it is before the dawn!" Workshop writing: Write about how pride in one's sobriety or recovery comes before the fall. What does this mean to you? Have you ever had the thought: "I've made it!" Or similar thoughts, "Look at me, I've arrived!"? Share an experience where you can see the pride and how it all turned out. Definitions: Look up the words, "pride," "quicksand," "insidious," "self-pity," (and make up your own definition of "self-pity" in question #2). Buddy Questions 1. Write out the last time you felt loneliness and despair. Share a loneliness and despair story as part of your sobriety story. 2. Write what you believe is a good definition of self-pity for you. 3. Are you full of loneliness and despair, afraid of opening up, even to your buddies or this group? Write about where you feel this in your life. 4. Write how being caught in quicksand is very similar to being caught in addiction. 5. Write about the last time the insidious insanity of the first drink lied to you. 5. Write down "alcoholic insanity." How is it a different type of insanity? 6. Come up with a minimum of 5 insidious insane thoughts that have run through your mind before picking up. 7. How many of you are up all night in loneliness, despair and self-pity when things are not working out? Then the thought comes, "There is hope!" When was the last time the hope came for you, and how? 8. Write alongside "dawn:" I have a choice. Draw the triangle. God at the top, you on the right, and on the left corner, write recovery, and draw arrows to those (steps, fellowships, sponsors, buddies, meetings, tools, etc.) In the middle of the triangle, write "life, recovery, dawn." 9. What tools work best for you (to exercise choice)? 10. How is humility the antidote to pride? end |
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