All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
(Week 203) September 1, 2016 – Thursday Big Book Step Study
Group membership There are no requirements for membership of this group. You may not be on amends (where we are) you may be dealing with step one. That is fine. All of these steps support one another so if you are still on step 4 you can be listening to step 9 and it doesn’t matter. It is like step 9 supports step 4 or step 1. Or you may be all done with steps 8 and 9 and you can still come, because step 9 supports living in steps 10, 11 and 12. I know I will never lose my need of doing steps 1-12. So you can be guaranteed that I am going to be taking you through the steps for the rest of my life. And you can choose to come or not to come. It is up to you. To join the members list, be sent the soul work and/or you would like a buddy, contact [email protected] 8am EST Tuesdays workshop (same tel. no.) Callback: 641 715 3900 pin 298913# Nearing the end of studying Bill W’s biography ’Pass It On’ . The group will next read the stories at the back of the Big Book. If you would like to contact Stephanie [email protected] Donations are needed towards the cost of the website. Please send to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 Freedom from obsession comes at a price and the price: constant vigilance. We cannot rest on our laurels. Today’s reading: BB (4th ed.) P. 83 beginning para 3 – p.84 end of full para 1 “They will always materialize if we work for them.” We’re currently in Steps 8 and 9; they are hard to separate. Step 8 is the approach position to making amends, to people we have hurt or harmed, the ‘GETTING READY’ stage. Step 9 is the actual ACTION of making amends. P.83 para 3 is FULL of direction on how to approach doing amends. Remember: BE HUMBLE! But, ‘As G-d’s people we STAND ON OUR FEET; we don’t crawl before anyone.’ P. 83 para 4 is chock full of the Eighth Step promises with each new sentence. Steps 1-8 get us ready to be at Step 9. SOUL WORK: Look up: (p.83) postpone/ delay/ sensible/ tactful/ considerate/ humble/ servile/ scraping (p.84) extravagant/ materialize What is the “work” we must do for the Step 8 promises to materialize? Getting past our strong feelings of ‘why should I make amends to them? Look how they hurt me!’ – by naming and claiming what is ours to claim ( i.e. negative actions, character defects) and putting the intellect over the emotions. Doing so will also help us to not pick up another, different addiction in an effort to fill our ‘God hole’. Rather, we must do the work in our Quiet Time, of going to God and asking, in our dis-ease, “what do I have to do to make things right?” This IS hard work; working through our character defects, bringing them to God in QT and praying on them for God to show us, clearly, what we must know and do to correct our part. We live IN COMMUNITY and we look for esteem. So to see our part and not wait for the other party to apologize IS the ‘hard work’.
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You can listen to our recorded meetings at (641) 715-3900, pin 95666# for our Tuesday Big Book Step Study workshop. You can also hear our Thursday Big Book Study recordings at (641) 715-3900, pin 298913#. These meetings can be accessed at any time.
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