Something that is not mentioned in the other 12 step programs is that you can work the 11th step right from the beginning. It states "Sought through payer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of Gods will for us and the power to carry that out."
This step is all about spiritual awareness. We should focus on building a relationship with a higher Power (God). By doing this our begin to seek such a expansion through prayer and meditation. When we seek, we find. For each step we take towards God, God takes a thousand steps towards us.
The key word in the 11th step is "only. we need to keep in mind that we pray only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out. We take action, trusting in God's results even though what happens to us may not be what we desired or envision for ourselves. We let go.
By growing in faith we begin to understand that God can open up limitless and new possibilities. Faith provides us with motivation to surrender to God's will. We are all under the care of God. As we loosen our grip on the reins of you lives, we find we are being, slowly in the right direction - towards home.
When we have difficulty exercising faith, we should think of what we are grateful for. The practice of gratitude is perhaps the most moving and powerful way in which we can cultivate a conscious contact with God, giving thanks for those blessings that we have, both great and small - for health, sight, and hearing, Friends, work and sunshine; for children, flowers; for recovery itself. With gratitude, we can share our happiness and increases our sense of joy. peace, and security. Prayer becomes as much or our daily lives as the air we breathe.
It had been said the prayer is talking to God and meditation is listening to God. Let go and let God.
GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE
THE COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN
AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
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