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8/31/2017 0 Comments Recording for August 31, 2017 (week 296) 31 August 2017 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions workshop. Call back number 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost of the website and upkeep Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a cheque to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 AA 12 Steps & 12 Traditions Step 11. page 102 ‘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.’ soul work Q1. ‘Expectations is a resentment in the making’. Write on this. Q2. When you talk to God in Quiet Time, when you ask for something, some help, wisdom or something specific and say: Thy will not mine be done, how does that keep you from having expectations? How does it keep you from demanding from God instead of asking? Q3.’Even so, when making specific requests,it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: “…if it by Thy will.’ What does that bring up for you? Q4.We live in this day. Yesterday is gone. Write this down: The only thing we can do about yesterday is we can:
Q5. ‘We ask simply that …
Q6. Look up ‘grace’. Q7. When this week have you felt the grace of God? Q8 Stephanie’s challenge: Write a program acronym for GRACE [If you wish we will put your first name and your acronym under literature]. Q9 ‘As the day goes one, we can pause where situations must be met and decisions made, and renew this simple request.’ a)How are you doing with this statement? b) look up ‘pause’ c) Do you do ‘pause’ well? Q10. How did you handle the last misunderstanding you had with somebody? Ends.
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8/24/2017 0 Comments Recording For August 24, 2017 (week 295) 24 August 2017 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions workshop.
Call back number 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST The new call-in # is: 319/527-3511 Pin 587213# Donations towards the cost of the website and upkeep Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a cheque to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Step 11. ‘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.’ page 102:1 soul work Q1. What is prayer: raising the heart and mind to God. Write on that. Have you experienced prayer as raising of your heart and mind to God. And if not, would you like to try to do that? In a sense this also includes meditation. So take the step 11 prayer and your writing you to Quiet Time. Take the first sentence in question 2 today (and the following sentences for each of the next seven days). Q2. Lord make me a channel of Thy peace. You have already written on that. Bring what you wrote to Quiet Time and say: ‘God I want to bring my heart and my mind to You. Would You help me to understand what this means in my life. Q3. Where there is hatred may I bring love – tomorrow do the process with this. Q4. Where there is wrong, I may I bring the spirit of forgiveness – Saturday Q5. That where there is is error, I may bring truth – Sunday Q6. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith – Monday Q7. That where there is despair, I may bring hope – Tuesday Q8. That where there are shadows, I may bring light – Wednesday Q9. What is the right thing to ask for, in which you are in greatest need? (The step 6 and 7 cards you wrote mean you already know the right things about yourself that God gave you so many months ago). God help me to live Your will and please give me the power to carry it out. Q10. Do you look for chances to be useful and helpful? Think about your day and how you structure it. God Thy will not mine be done. Bless it or block it. Ends. 8/17/2017 0 Comments Recording For August 17, 2017 Week 294 August 17 2017 12 Step Big Book All Addictions Workshop
Call back number 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) NEW PHONE NUMBER......Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST 315-527-3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost of the website and upkeep Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a cheque to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions page 101:2 soul work Q1 What does it mean to you to be ‘self-forgetting’? Give an example when you have been self-forgetting in the past month. Q2 What does it mean to you to give comfort than to give comfort. Give an example. Q3. What does it mean to understand than to be understood? Give an example Q4. What does it mean to forgive than to be forgiven? Give an example. Q5. Where are you today? In meditation ask: ‘God how can I honour you in my life? Thy will God not mine be done.’ Q6. For the coming week during Quiet Time tell God where you are each day and explore in meditation what ‘Thy will not mine be done’ means to you.’ Q7. Do you feel your Quiet Time is an individual adventure? Do you go to your Quiet Time knowing that you and God are up to something special - like a very special adventure? Underline. But its object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His grace, wisdom and love. Q8. When you go to Quiet Time, are you feeling God’s grace, wisdom and love? Q9a). Have you seen your channel with God widen? And if you haven’t what do you think you can do to improve your conscious contact with God to feel His grace wisdom and love? b) Can you bring more of an open mind, unhurried time, a desire to Quiet Time? If so, ask: ‘God help me to have an improved conscious contact with you. Help me to feel your grace, hear your wisdom, help me to feel your love.’ Ends 8/10/2017 0 Comments Recording For August 10, 2017 12 Step Big Book All Addictions Workshop Week #293 August 10 2017 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Bottom of page 100~101 1). Read over the 11th Step Prayer, and reread it again. Sit quietly and ask your Higher Power what the inner essence is that your Divine Source wants you to understand. Glean the best from it for you and your life. Then write out the inner essence for you. Write out what you want your inner essence of your personhood to be (like you would a business statement or mission statement for your business or foundation). 2.) What is a “Channel”? Look it up. What does “Channel of Grace” mean to you? 3.) Do you want to be a channel of grace that brings love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, joy, comfort and understanding to all? Be honest with yourself. 4.) If you do want to be that channel, do you see yourself as accomplishing it? Write an example that you have seen. Could you be doing more? Brig this to Quiet Time as a request to your Higher Power. 5.) Who in your life is a channel giving you grace of love, forgiveness, harmony, truth, faith, hope, light, joy, comfort and understanding? You need to receive so as to refill your own well. Plus, other people need the joy of giving to you, so you must accept it from them. 6.) How good are you at accepting people’s gifts? Who is wanting to give you this grace? It must be two-way street. Give + take=healthy relationship 7.) What does “Self-forgetting” mean? Really investigate it. 8/3/2017 0 Comments Recording For August 3, 2017 week #292 August 3 2017 12 Step Big Book All Addictions Workshop
12 Steps and 12 Traditions Bottom of page 99~100 A) What is a “spiritual objective”? Is yours selfish, self centered; will it hurt family, myself, society? 1) Describe in detail the way you meditate. Do you have any resistance to the 11th Step prayer? What words, phrases? What did you replace that with? 2) Do you “debate” when you are meditating? (top of page 100) 3) Describe how it feels to rest quietly with the thoughts you know come from God. 4) What are using now to bring yourself into quiet time? For example what prayer, literature, religious text? 5) Are you willing to partake and strengthen and be lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty and love of which those magnificent words are the carrier? (1rst paragraph, page 100?) |
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