Alcoholics Anonymous | June 12 | DonInLondon | Step 6 "Let Go"
Channel: Don DonInLondon
Date: 12/06/2011

June 12 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: "forming true partnerships..." Alcohol, our co-dependent friend with all the power. No wonder it takes time and recovery to develop new outlooks with regard to romance and finance. And especially to mix up both romance and finance in relationships. If we are needy for love and have money, the first losses are our wits and then the emptying of our bank account...

Finance and romance are very difficult in recovery. Old feelings are hard to let go. And co-dependency is just a moment away. We don't choose who we fall in love with and we can be very forgiving of those who are flattering and teasers. If we are needy we can get fleeced in so many ways financially and romantically. And understanding how to form a true partnerships and loving relationships is often the most painful experience living sober today...

Am I treating the person with whom I feel connection with unconditional love and most often the challenge is to understand how they treat me. I am very forgiving and know people do the best they can always even if it seems to be the worst of experiences for me. I don't need to keep throwing myself back into the same old insanities. I can love people and hate their behaviour and it's not for me to correct their behaviour at all... This is when I let go with love...

Love people love their behaviour and they cherish me and I cherish them. And even when I love people and they treat me with superficiality and indifference by their hurtful actions and behaviour, I need not hurt them back directly or try correct them in some way. We were sharing about detachment with love over the weekend, the topic in a meeting. And detachment with love through to acceptance takes time depending on the nature and depth of our feelings today...

When we mix business with pleasure we will meet scoundrels and we might have been scoundrels, defined as: scoundrel...baddie (or baddy), beast, brute, caitiff, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, hound, knave, meanie (also Meany), miscreant, monster, Nazi, no-good, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, rogue, savage, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, villain, varlet, wretch. Great words in Webster's dictionary, they can be trouble in sobriety and be a problem, the solution? Tell them kindly to f**k off and then begin forming true partnerships one day at a time...

DonInLondon 2005-2011 [Full daily blog link: http://donoddylondon.blogspot.com/] 

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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. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of unique and authentic people who speak for themselves where they will to share experience, 

strength and hope about recovery on a daily basis. Anonymity affords sanctuary to find how to live sober and be open, honest and willing to learn life day by day. For me "truth," "love" and 

"wisdom" offer the best spiritual experience by living reality today. Into the fabric of recovery from alcoholism are woven the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions, steps to be open, honest and 

willing to learn, traditions to live unity, service and recovery.

Spiritual principles ~ Forgiveness Acceptance Surrender Faith Open-mindedness Honesty Willingness Moral-inventory Amends Humility Persistence Spiritual-growth Service

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