We can have a private thread if you wish. Your choice or we can use your thread.
Already we have discussed steps 1 to 3
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.
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AA says
Newcomers are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.
They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered alcoholics describe their personal experiences in achieving sobriety, and to read AA literature describing and interpreting the AA program.
AA members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem drinkers themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact alcoholics.
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I feel that you are ready to think about Step 4.
What is your view on it?
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Rosalinda and B I have thought carefully about this, sometimes this exposes FOO issues at that stage absolutely private.
I assume Rosa Linda if B is happy to move forwards you are comfortable to contribute if he requests extra support?
That would be good.
Rosa Linda I have put an extra request on your thread regarding another poster here who has a sitch that concerns me greatly.
V
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. V 64, WAW
