Four people's experience, strength and hope related to third part of Step Four-The Sex Inventory, from The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
We reviewed our own conduct over the years past. (69: 1) List all the people, institutions, and principles we have caused trouble for through our sexual conduct and relationship behaviors. We work down our list from top to bottom, just writing names for now. We ignore the Second and Third columns for the time being.
Audio Recording-Patrick-Sex Part
Now about sex. Many of us needed an overhauling there. But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question. It's so... ...
AAs Should Be Honest About Sex Problems MANY people who write on the subject of sex problems feel obliged to... ...
The thing to do with sin is to do what Nicodemus did: go and search out someone with whom we can talk privately and frankly. Tell them of these things and, with them as witness, give these sins and our old selves with them, to God. You say that you can do this alone with God; and I ask you, Have you succeeded in doing so? I said I was going to do that for years, but it never happened until I let a ...
Sentence #1. If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at Step Six.
What are we answering? On the prior page we are instructed to do certain things after completion of step 5, including:
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. [Big Book, page 75, line 29]
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STEP 7 Into Action p. 76: 2
Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Let God. (76: 1) Grant me strength. (76: 2)
Points of Focus and Reflection (Consider 76: 2)
1.) Humbly: The action of humility
How has “my way” landed me in difficulty?
Am I acting as my own higher power?
How does my usefulness to myself and others depend on my being
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Four people's experience, strength and hope related to Step Six, from The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
These speakers have done the process as laid out in The Big Book. They are sharing their experience on Steps Six and... ...
This interview originally appeared in Steps Magazine.
Steps Eight and Nine Article- Interview with Piers K.
STEPS: Do you remember what your sponsor told you when it was time for you to make amends?
Piers: My sponsor told me to make a list of the people I’d harmed, the guiding rule being that they had to know that I’d hurt them. If I went to someone I’d hurt in ways they did not know, I
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I'm always interested in other people's understanding of The God of Their Understanding. This video caught my attention because Ernest Kurtz is in it. Kurtz wrote the book "Not God" A history of Alcoholics Anonymous, a book that I read many years ago.
This video accomplishes something very simple for me, but very important, its makes me examine my personal understanding of God.
These speakers have done the process as laid out in The Big Book. They are sharing their experience on Steps Eight and... ...
These speakers have done the process as its laid out in the Big Book. They're sharing their experience on Step Ten.... ...