All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
6/16/2016 0 Comments Notes For June 16, 2016NOTICE: Unfortunately, The Recording Is Not Available For This Meeting.
(week 231-2 ) 16 June 2016 12 Step Study All Addictions Big Book Workshop (wk 231 on June 9 2016 when Stephane was away – see week 230 for soul work) 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. Stephanie says: We could use some money. We just had the third attack on our website in six months and had to buy more protection. I will put every penny I have to protecting your computer from our website. Thank you to Debbie and Linda for your help.” 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..” Steps 8 and 9 are very much action steps Q1. On 3 x 5 cards write the person’s name, contact details and the exact nature of the harm done. Divide these into three piles: 1. I am ready to make the amends now 2. I am not yet ready 3. I never want to make amends. I don’t know if I need to make amends. Pray about all the cards and take them to Quiet Time – especially those on the third pile. Go back to when you took inventory (which is some time ago now). Remember all you have to write on the card is the name, contact information, the exact nature of your wrong. You may not know the exact nature of your wrong so do a step 10 – continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong and promptly admit it – did I really harm them? If there is a question mark put in the third pile and keep asking God. So this is your action right now: Writing and praying. We are separating steps eight and nine. We are looking at just step eight. We need time: TIME: Things I Must Experience. ‘We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. ‘ Write this down: Pride comes before the fall. ‘The block to 100 percent honesty about 100 percent of our lives comes from pride. and underneath this is fear of not being good enough.’ Q2. Write about that. Please scour your life. Are you being 100 percent honest? Please bring this to God. Honesty is the key to the rest of the steps. If you reach step 8 and find yourself not being 100 percent honest about 100 percent of your life to people who expect you to have an intimate relationship with them: groups you belong to, your sponsor, spouse, buddy group, etc, write about it. Stephanie says: ‘I believe that there is no recovery without honesty.’ Q3. Take an incident in your life, There is your story (with lots of times mistaken thinking), the other person’s story and somewhere in the middle there is the truth. Write about that – it is what step 8 brings to the light. IMPORTANT! Do not under any circumstances make amends. ‘The action right now is to write out the cards. We are not making amends. If you see someone you need to make amends to, make a living amends: be kind, considerate friendly. When you go to make amends and you have been kind considerate friendly, it will be easier. Remember: God is in charge.
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