Twelve Step Program Experience ( On Topic Please)

[burrheadd]

 

[Integrity]

Step Ten:“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

 

[Integrity]

Step Eleven: “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 it out.”

In A.A. I have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question.

 

[quad decade guy]

Step Eleven: “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 it out.”

In A.A. I have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question.

Curious....what happens if you aren't religious/believe in "God"(whatever that means).....

Can the "program" still help you? Can you skip that part? Serious question.

 

[quad decade guy]

Step Eleven: “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 it out.”

In A.A. I have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question.

Curious....what happens if you aren't religious/believe in "God"(whatever that means).....

Can the "program" still help you? Can you skip that part? Serious question.

 

[Integrity]

Curious....what happens if you aren't religious/believe in "God"(whatever that means).....

Can the "program" still help you? Can you skip that part? Serious question.

The program can still help. I think this covers a lot that just might answer your questions.

Let me know.

https://www.aa.org/assets/en_us/en_step11.pdf

 

[Lineandinitial]

One has to be completely ed up to come on BC (or any such SM site) and recite AA steps for no apparent reason. Do you not realize how you are degrading a serious program? You may be a Dog Day Afternoon kind of guy...

 

[Integrity]

One has to be completely *ed up to come on BC (or any such SM site) and recite AA steps for no apparent reason.

It may eventually help 1 person, who knows.

If you don’t like the discussion topic, you may be more comfortable in a different discussion thread.

Do you not realize how you are degrading a serious program?

No, In what way?

You may be a Dog Day Afternoon kind of guy...

I don’t know what this means.

 

[Integrity]

Step1: We admitted were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”

 

[trickpony1]

Step1: We admitted were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”

...we're....

Hope this helps.

 

[Integrity]

...we're....

Hope this helps.

Thank you for pointing out my error!

 

[Integrity]

@trickpony1 pointed out an error that I made in step one.

Correction:

Step One: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”

Thanks again @trickpony1 !!!

 

[Integrity]

https://www.aa.org/assets/en_us/en_step1.pdf

 

[Integrity]

“We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences.”

 

[Integrity]

A.A. Step Two: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

 

[Integrity]

In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions did not require action; they required only acceptance.

 

[burrheadd]

In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions did not require action; they required only acceptance.

Are you reaching out for help?

maybe you should call your sponsor

 

[Integrity]

Are you reaching out for help?

No.

maybe you should call your sponsor

I used a sponsor early in recovery, I do not believe in life long sponsorship.

I have started this thread in hope of just maybe helping one person on the BC someday.

Maybe happen, maybe not.

 

[Integrity]

Steps 3-12 call for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God—or, if you like, a Higher Power—into our lives.

 

[Integrity]

A.A. Step 3: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”