Charles L. Davis Mapping The 12 Steps (Continued)... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/bbxml/cdc_bb_steps2_rss.xml This work in progress...is dedicated to all the individuals who helped me get here so I could share this...work in progress...with you......My Name is Charles and My Sobriety Date Is June 9, 1985 and Counting... Charles L. Davis bb_wip@yahoo.com Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Rss (XML) File "http://www.cdaviscenter.net/Images/valid-rss.png" http://www.cdaviscenter.net/bbxml/cdc_bb_steps2_rss.xml 60 Principle #7-HUMILITY_Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Step7 My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:05:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com Principle #8-BROTHERLY LOVE_Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Step8 Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead." Let's look at Steps Eight and Nine. We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:10:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com Principle #9-JUSTICE_Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Step9 Probably there are still some misgivings. As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis. Let us be reassured. To some people we need not, and probably should not emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:20:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com The 12 Step Promises... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:25:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com Principle #10-PERSEVERANCE_Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Whenweretire Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. This thought brings us to Step Ten Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:30:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com Principle #11-SPIRITUAL_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... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#step11 Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation. We shouldn't be shy on this matter of prayer. Better men Into Action than we are using it constantly. It works, if we have the proper attitude and work at it. It would be easy to be vague about this matter. Yet, we believe we can make some definite and valuable suggestions. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:35:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com Principle #12-SERVICE_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... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_7.html#Page89 Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when other fail. Remember they are very ill. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:45:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com A Vision For You... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_11.html#Ourbook Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:05:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com An inventory that shows how the 12 Steps relate to the 12 Principles... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/principles/principles.html If the 4thStep inventory is too frightening then this method will work - First at the very top of your inventory page write these words (I am afraid to write this inventory) and then do one (1) resentment a day or one (1) a week, but write out all 12 steps for your one resentment. There is a written inventory example on one resentment at the enclosed address. All 12 steps were applied.Also included is the relevant Principle. Go to this address... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/principles.html Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:15:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com AWIP (A Work In Progress)... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/ This work in progress...is dedicated to all the individuals who helped me get here so I could share this...work in progress...with you...My Name is Charles and My Sobriety Date Is June 9, 1985 and Counting... Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:15:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com DisClaimer and Creative Commons License Go Here>>... http://www.cdaviscenter.net/#Dis Construction of this site and the design of all other connecting pages by Charles L. Davis... Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:15:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com