Alcoholics Anonymous | June 23 | DonInLondon | Step 6 "Let Go"
Channel: Don DonInLondon
Date: 2011-06-23

June 23 2012 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 6 Spiritual Willingness Alcoholics Anonymous [Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/] Today's AA daily reflection: "trusting others..." Trust others to share their experience strength and hope as they see it. It is a view of life, their life and what has happened. I know in my early days I told tall stories based in truth, and trust me there were many embellishments to the truth!

Fellowship is all about how to be open honest and willing to face life on life's terms. I began to see the truth of my situation on a daily basis, how it was improving some of the time and going downhill quite a lot of the time. I had to get honest with myself and seek truth, trust in myself came as I shared experience, strength and hope with those around me. I do trust others to share what they can and then trust is an understanding of my own fallibility and the fallibility of everyone. After all as we are all learning life together, some of us need to take our time to straighten out what our feelings are and why are thinking is somewhat deluded... This happens every day to an extent and just for today I hope and trust I see reality more than a fantasy...

I do trust people, full of information based on life experience, some of their experience, strength and hope will help me. And at the same time I do not follow blindly. A phrase comes to mind, "trust God and clean house," and as Gandhi said, "God is truth and God is love." Usually we do get the truth, and as we progress day by day, we learn to love unconditionally who we are, sometimes living reality, sometimes fantasies and sometimes delusions just for today...

When I can forgive myself when I screw up, I need to forgive everyone who screws up daily just like me. I trust the human condition, sometimes temperate and often intemperate when pushed. And I have the optimism to know as life progresses I can trust and the truth coming out and that if we are able to nurture ourselves and other people, love does conquer all... And when it doesn't fuck them, metaphorically and just a little bit and then forgive them as quickly as we can...

What a gift, when we are gifted with recovery and find we can keep on learning, making mistakes, not really understanding what we doing and still have the courage to change, we trust in the principles and experiences as life evolves. The principles, the twelve steps, open the gateway to a new way of living, freedom to evolve, freedom to understand the choices we have, what we can and cannot do and the wisdom to know the difference today...

DonInLondon 2005-2012 [Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/] 

AA Official Online Site: Daily Reflections http://www.aa.org/lang/en/aareflections.cfm
AA Official Online Site: Big Book And Twelve And Twelve http://www.aa.org/lang/en/subpage.cfm?page=359

Step 6. "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" At this point, it would be a good idea to look again at our sharing in step five, where we define character and list a number of our defects. Completing step 5, we have compiled a list of the character defects. Step six is concerned with our spiritual willingness to have these defects of character removed, contingent on each day we meditate and pray in good conscience, and or to God as we understand for ourselves. Seven billion humans, seven billion outlooks and defintions about God every day... yours is as good as it gets today...

Step 6 "Spiritual Willingness" Reading Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M32D2S_A-g
June Video Reading Chapter Six Into Action Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVuLKhdqk8

I do not speak for Alcoholics Anonymous I speak for myself. Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

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