Charles L. Davis http://www.cdaviscenter.net/bbxml/cdc_bb_steps_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... bb_wip@yahoo.com Charles L. Davis Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us "http://www.cdaviscenter.net/Images/valid-rss.png" http://www.cdaviscenter.net/bbxml/cdc_bb_steps_rss.xml 15 http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_3.html#Step1 We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics.This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:10:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_4.html#Step2 Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:20:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_5.html#BeingConvinced Being convinced, we were at Step Three, which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him. Just what do we mean by that, and just what do we do? Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:30:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_5.html#3dPray God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always! Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:35:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_5.html#Step4 This was Step Four. A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke. Taking commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:40:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Step5 Having made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it? We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path. We have admitted certain defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have put our finger on the weak times in our personal inventory. Now these are about to be cast out. This requires action on our part, which, when completed, will mean that we have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our defects. Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:45:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com http://www.cdaviscenter.net/chapters/chapter_6.html#Step6 We thank God from the bottom of our heart that we know Him better. Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. Is our work solid so far? Are the stones properly in place? Have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation? Have we tried to make mortar without sand? Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:50:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 16:00 -0500 bb_wip@yahoo.com 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 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