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Step 2 ~ Mike M.
Cleveland, Ohio ~ 8-11-2018
Step 2
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
page 47, 2nd paragraph
We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. “Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?”
Page 53 - When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self imposed crises we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?
AA - Recovered - Alcoholics Anonymous - AA100011
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http://www.spiritualsteps.com/2016
Paul F. shares on taking the 12 steps of AA
STEP'S 2 and 3
Sobriety - freedom from alcohol - through the teaching
and practice of the Twelve Steps, is the sole purpose
of an AA group.
Bill Wilson, AA co-founder,
1958 AA Grapevine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK97oTIb958
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Bill Wilson, AA co-founder
http://www.steppingstones.org
Let Go Absolutely
After failure on my part to dry up any drunks,
Dr. Silkworth reminded me of Professor William James's observation that truly transforming
spiritual experiencesare nearly always founded on calamity and collapse.
"Stop preaching at them," Dr. Silkworth said, "and give them the hard medical facts first.
This may soften them up at depth so that they will be willing to do anything to get well.
Then they may accept those spiritual ideas of yours, and even a Higher Power."
A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 13
http://aa.org
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AA - Page 55 --- WHERE AND HOW TO FIND GOD OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.
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AA THE ORIGINAL WAY
SOURCE - CREDIT ---- http://www.aatheoriginalway.com
Bill W, ---- 12 & 12
Bob S,
Clarence S,
Little Red Book
http://www.aatheoriginalway.com/aa-articles-commentary/aa-4th-5th-steps-assets-liabilities-big-book
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UPCOMING EVENT --- MAY 21, 2022 ---AA ZOOM HISTORY ON THE 12 TRADITIONS
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STEP 1
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol - that
our lives had become
unmanageable.
STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity
STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the
care of God as we understood
Him.
STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects
of character.
STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to
them all.
STEP 9
Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible,
except when to do so would
injure them or others.
STEP 10
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
STEP 11
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as
we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of
His will for us and the power
to carry that out.
STEP 12
Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to
carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice
these principles in all
our affairs.
SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE
HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE
TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS
Alcoholics Anonymous,
Chapter 5,
How it works,
AA,
Dr Bob,
Bill W,
Big Book,
12 Steps,
RECOVERED,
Powerless,
1st Step Experience,
Cr
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