Step We Are On: Five
Page:
72
Chapter: 6
“Into Action”
Subject: Discussing
ourselves with another person
Good
morning. Now that we have taken Steps Three and Four and have decided to put
the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous to the test, we are ready to go into
action. That just happens to be the
title of Chapter 6, “INTO ACTION”. In
this Chapter, we are given the directions, the prayers and what some call the “Promises”
for Steps Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten and Eleven. Better than “promises” they are really predictions of what will happen to us as
we go through and experience a transformation that this program induces.
Pages 72 through 88
What seems to be so
amazing about this Program is its simplicity.
We are told how to make our decision to begin recovery on page 63. From page 64 through page 83, we are told
what we must do to be assured of a spiritual awakening or a spiritual
experience. Once we have taken the
action outlined in these pages, we are told we are now recovered
alcoholics.
To maintain that
miracle and to grow spiritually, we are told how we can take care of the moment
by applying Step Ten and how to gain the Power and Knowledge of His will for us
by practicing Step Eleven. That precious information is contained in just 5
pages (Pages 84 through 88).
Having followed the
clear-cut directions presented in these 24 pages of this Basic Text, we are
promised that we will have a spiritual awakening and thereby have a Solution
for all our problems. Not just the
problem of alcoholism, but ALL our problems.
The only way to see if that will prove true for us, as it did the
authors of this Book, is to do what they report they did. With Step Four, we have taken only the first
action Step. Now it is time for action and more action.
NOTE: Please see now compelled, time sensitive words like "NOW" continue to move the protege from one step to the next with zero haste.
We recover by the Steps we take, not the meetings
we make.
NEXT POST – we get INTO
ACTION!
Peace
and Love,
Danny
S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
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