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Step Seven: The Posture of Grace
Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Forget religion. Forget world religions. Forget atheists in foxholes. Forget what’s fair. This is the key to the 12-step program; everything builds upon this. There are really only two kinds of … Continue reading
Step Six: Pre-op
Step 6. Are ready to have God remove all these defects of attitude and character. If this doesn’t hurt, it’s probably not happening. What does it take for God to remove these defects in attitude or character? It takes a … Continue reading
Step Five: Why they go
Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Why do people keep going to AA meetings even after years and years of sobriety? Here are a few reasons.
Step Four: Taking Inventory
Step 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path … Continue reading
Step Three: Giving up the whoopee
Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. It’s all about control. So far I have been in control of my own life and I have already … Continue reading
Step Two: A Power greater than ourselves
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. There is an oral tradition in AA that is a play on the first three words of this step: “Came to believe.…” It turns … Continue reading
Step One: Powerless and Unmanageable
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. It has been estimated that over two million people worldwide are currently partaking in the assistance provided by an Alcoholics Anonymous group, and AA has been in … Continue reading
A.A. Meeting Tonight
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship of men and women coming together with the stated purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics achieve sobriety. It was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith of … Continue reading
Day by Day
Day by day, day by day, Oh dear Lord three things I pray: To see Thee more clearly, Love Thee more dearly, Follow Thee more nearly, day by day. Are you conscious of the days passing by? Do you know … Continue reading
Disaster Preparedness
Here in southern California, we are finding out a lot about disaster preparedness after the devastating wildfires that have taken lives and left thousands homeless in nearby Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Things like thinking ahead about what you would want … Continue reading
John Fischer The Catch 