step 9 was an opportunity to change the face of my life. it offered me the freedom to use the integrity i started growin in step 5 and humility of step 7. it not only gives me the convenience to show how my changed perspective on my place in the world can open new doors,...

headin out to make any amends w/out counsel with my sponsor is just as touchin the hot flame of a stove. for me, it is even more a fools move to do it w/out prayer & meditation, and then not takin my HP with me when i make an amends. i didnt know how the...

one problem i find difficult for me, on the whole concept of Forgiveness. Is i do i really forgive? wholeheartedly, i would like to say i do. but sometimes, somethings or someone its more difficult to actually really let go out things. heres a prefect demontraction. my mother passed 2017, after i returned home from...

as easy as it may have been to call another out for the reasons i had behaved like i did back in the days of doin my dirt, it wouldnt have helped me. it wouldve only carried forward the self-centered fear id grown accustomed to. this was an opportunity for me to face the wrongs...

my sponsor and i went over my amends list and scripted why, how, and when, i was to make my amends to those i had harmed. it was made clear that i had no business just headin out and free ballin any amends as i had the potential to do more harm than good. with...

for years i suffered under my own doins. shit that had happened to me, whether i had caused it, or whether i had nothin to do with its cause, had kept me from bein who i really wanted to be within and without. i had behavior and thinkin problems caused from these events that had...

In the midst of zoned reality, pave your own might upon the path of truth until the serendipitous majesty of childlike stillness overwhelms your every anxiety for a moment too subtle to be real, until your dreams are overwhelmed, until your thoughts are each turned back to the tinkling of water from a fountain that...

the reconstruction of my life will not end til the day i pass. the more i learn about myself, the deeper understandin i have of the grace my HP has blessed me with. and as far as amends go, even as i may have given those i harmed the opportunity to allow me to know...

idk bout ya’ll, but ive seen dry drunks in the rooms, i dont wanna feel like that, just sober. i remember what it was like to be angry all the time. still stuck in myself. passin on all that hurt and frustration onto anybody that dared cross my path. and for me to remain like...

step 9s spiritual principle of justice is another step toward gainin the freedom i walked into the rooms to get. as tough as the thought of this step may have been for me in the beginnin, today i understand its importance. it is an opportunity for me to use each of the prior steps ive...