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MajestyJo
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 Posted - 10/18/2007 : 05:16:41
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What Step are you working? What Step do you have difficulty with? Have you done a Fourth Step? Have you done a Step more than once? What is your favorite Step? Which Step helped you the most?
I work all the Steps as they apply in today. I have done three written Fourth Steps, I had to do it over until I got it right. It took a while to be totally honest with myself. As I healed, more was revealed.
Step Three was my favorite Step until I got to the Eleventh. The one I had the most difficulty with was Step 10. I tended to get lax and complacent when it came to working this Step.
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
Edited by - MajestyJo on 10/18/2007 19:11:30 |
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Lin
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 10/18/2007 : 16:35:07
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I've also done three 4th and 5th steps. I have worked all of the steps and continue to work some of them eah and every day.
I found alot of growth over the last 14 years when I look back at my 4th steps. Mine was not scarey at all. Instead it gave me positie things to build on that I was not relly seeing in my life until I made this honest examination of ME.
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iowama
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Posted - 10/19/2007 : 23:23:44
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What Step are you working? What Step do you have difficulty with? Have you done a Fourth Step? Have you done a Step more than once? What is your favorite Step? Which Step helped you the most?
Every year I do a fourth and fifth step. It's a discipline I developed early in sobriety and one that's served me well.
I'd say the tenth step is my favorite step......LOL...but that'd be lying. If I did such a stand-up job of the 10th step I wouldn't be NEEDING that yearly fourth and fifth step, right? (wrong!!)
Actually, I'm pretty disciplined in doing the tenth step (spot check inventory) during the day and upon retiring I've got my written tenth step. EVERY night, day in day out. Sounds like a drag, huh? LOL Nah--cuz it works for me to stop at the end of the day to take stock. I know exactly what 'business' I need to attend to come first thing in the morning so my side of the street's clean and I can be at peace with me and the people around me. (I'm sure the Big Guy appreciates me following through to do what's 'right', too!)
I have a passion for the 12th step.
I'm thinkin' that's a good thing for me TO have. I'm still chasing that definition of 'true ambition'......dunno that I've reached that, today but it's been one heck of a ride chasing it, yaknow?
What step am I working?
Gosh, I'm happy to report that most days it's 'effortless' work to live the steps.
But for the record, it's one, every morning when I get up--then two and three cuz I surrender every morning (and multiple times during the day when I decide I don't haffta live those three steps and principles and I can do it MY way). There's meditation and prayer in the morning and evening. And darn that I'm forever dealing with the defects of character--LOL--it's a darn good thing the Big Guy has a usefulness for me JUST the way I am, today, eh?
Really, it's pretty effortless work, today.
Strange how that sorta just 'evolves' when you cease fighting everyone and everything, huh? |
~~~True ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of G-d.~~~ |
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MajestyJo
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Posted - 10/26/2007 : 17:20:49
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As you say my friend, I call it the 1, 2, 3 Waltz. I do it every morning. It is just a part of living. I can't, God can, just for today, I choose to let Him. I haven't done more written Fourths but did went to counselling for six years and did a verbal one. I have the paperwork to do an Al-Anon Fourth Step and have had it for a while but haven't done it. I seem to have a mental block. I guess I need to go back to praying for the willingness to be willing. My defects of character make themselves glaringly apparent on a daily basis and those I take to the God of my understanding. It is good that He is understanding, loving and tolerant. I have taken different short coming to Him over the years, they got better but I find they do come back and repeat themselves. I don't like it, but I guess that is a part of my humanness. I don't like that either.
As I stated, Step Ten is something I try to practice daily all through the day. When I forget, I try to play catch up at night. Meditation is a big part of my life. I found that if I pray, I need to stop and listen for the answers. Just praying, praying, praying means I don't have faith. When I stop and listen, I know the answers will come. I might not like the answer, and maybe the time isn't now, but there is always an answer. I am a big lover of Tradition Five; therefore, Step Twelve is important to me. I believe it is my responsibility. I have been given so much in this program, it is only right that I should share it with others. I had to build my web sites to put all the material that was sent to me by the people I met on the internet. I couldn't forward them by e-mail, Yahoo and MSN kept cutting me off for sending too many e-mails in one day. I found this to be ironic. I never got cut off in the bar, yet I get cut off in sobriety. I can only send one e-mail an hour because I can only send to 100 people at once. Even then, I have to decide not to send to certain parties because I have over 100 addys.
I share because I care.
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Love Always,
Each Day is a New Beginning, so have a great one. |
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Lin
Junior Member
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2007 : 16:52:37
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I am at a very comfortable place in my recovery. I know what works for me. I know I need to get to my f2f evey week and to read my readings. I know I need to stay in tough online and by phone with other recovery members. That's what works for me.
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Lin
Junior Member
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - 10/27/2007 : 17:06:58
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Here we go again. I posted a reply and it said NOT MODERATED!!!!! It does not show as the last post.
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Littlepistol
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USA
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Posted - 10/30/2007 : 10:33:57
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I got the NOT MODERATED on one of my posts as well and it doesn't show as last post, odd isn't it? but the bugs will work their way out. Remember the ghost we had for a long time at the old site? Perhaps he has also come home. LOL
As to the topic at hand. I've done a number of 4th and 5ths over the years. At first they were scary but have become learning experiences as well as gratitudes. I do miss some of the online meetings and many chats we always seemed to have going. There are only a few f2f around town and they are not very supportive. I know that is not good to say as I should try to do something but at this time only seem to be able to pray for them. Ofcourse there are still a couple old timers I have touch with and that keeps my recovery on track. Mostly I would say over these past couple years it's been my personal time and reading that keeps me going.
I love life and would say that some days I work the steps without even setting out to do so. They are my life.
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LET GO LET GOD
As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God, because He was my friend.
I hung around and tried to help, with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back and cried, "How can you be so slow?"
"My child," He said,
"What could I do? You never did let go." |
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