AA
Powerless
AA Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable. Substitute the word Alcohol with anything in our daily life. At some point we will be powerless over something, or many things that have nothing to do with drug or alcohol addiction. Powerless over greed, a rebelling child, … [Read more…]
A Higher Power
AA Step Two - “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” This is a tricky article to write, very difficult to convince people to believe in a High Power if they don’t already. For me, it is pretty easy to believe. I can’t look at the photos from … [Read more…]
AA 12 Steps: A Closer Walk with the Lord
Many believe they know what Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is all about. They think it is just a group of people sitting around talking about their addiction to alcohol with 12 steps they work through. It is so much more than that! We share our experience, hope and strength with others and we keep coming back……no … [Read more…]
Continue To Take Personal Moral Inventory
Step 10 - “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” To briefly summarize, in previous steps we: admitted we were powerless over (fill in the blank); decided to turn our life over to God; made a fearless moral inventory; admitted the nature of our wrongs; asked God to remove … [Read more…]
Humility
Step 7 - Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. The Lord cannot begin such a revolutionary change of our entire character until we allow Him to do so which was our willingness from Step 6. Step 7 is our decision, we have to humble ourselves deliberately. We have to surrender every particle of self-sufficient … [Read more…]
Moral Inventory
Step 4 - ” Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.“ The 12 & 12 tells us CREATION gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn’t be complete human beings. If men and women didn’t exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct … [Read more…]