Alcoholics Anonymous | June 28 | DonInLondon | Step 6 "Let Go"
Channel: Don DonInLondon
Date: 2011-06-28

AA Daily Reflections ~ "The determination of our founders: June 28 ~ A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more. [big blue book]

If it had not been for the fierce determination of our founders, A.A. would have quickly faded like so many other so-called good causes. I look at the hundreds of meetings weekly in the city where I live and I know A.A. is available twenty-four hours a day. If I had had to hang on with nothing but hope and a desire not to drink, experiencing rejection wherever I went, I would have sought the easier, softer way and returned to my previous way of life.

DonInLondon

Ninety meetings in ninety days seemed like a tall order. It was never an order, it was a suggestion. And I wanted to belong somewhere instead of sitting in a bar, on a park bench, unable to reach out and wishing for my last breath. I went to as many meetings as I could and started to belong again...

Recovery has been a combination of listening to wisdom in the fellowship of AA, support from family, friends, community and professionals, and especially medical professionals who helped me understand the true nature of three clinical and chronic conditions...

This afternoons challenge, life is difficult, I need trust to good conscience, my own, keep learning and know I am powerless over anyone else and their conscience, accept clarity when it happens, let go and move on... knowing can be dark...

Meditation, spiritual and acceptance... to engage in mental exercise [as concentration on one's breathing or repetition of a feeling or thought] for the purpose of reaching spiritual awareness; spiritual the reality of now. Acceptance, what we can do and cannot do today...

We cannot keep anything we would take away from others... Freedom to develop our understanding of living: spiritual, emotional and physical, in fellowship we offer a path to life on life's terms. We do not control, we support and challenge, then, courage, faith and confidence may flourish...


Step 6 is a step of preparation and reflection. I have been preparing for a significant change in my life and now I need to make sure that I am ready. I need to make sure in my own heart and mind that I am truly willing for God to remove these defects of character that have enabled my addictive behaviors. It might mean letting go of other things in my life in order to allow God to do the work that needs to be done. I need to determine if I am truly ready. 

"The A.A. Steps & Traditions are neither rules, regulations, nor laws. Perhaps the secret of their power lies in the fact that these life-giving communications spring out of living experience and are rooted in love." 1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 105."  "We find it amazing that the newcomer can start the A.A. program without any specific beliefs or, for that matter, without any beliefs whatsoever. All a person needs is the open-mindedness and the willingness to believe that WE BELIEVE this program works..."

Spiritual principles to live life "real" ~ "Forgiveness" "Acceptance" "Surrender" "Faith" "Open-mindedness" "Honesty" "Willingness" "Moral-inventory" "Amends" "Humility" "Persistence" "Spiritual-growth" "Service"

Step 6 "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character"

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