god I offer myself to thee to build with
me and to do it with me as I will
relieve me of the bondage of self they
may better do thy will take away my
difficulties that victory over them may
bear witness to those I would help o thy
power thy love thy way of life may I do
thy will always
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will you join me in the serenity prayer
god grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change courage to change
the things I can and will know the
difference
and then we're all going to sit quietly
and write down whatever comes to mind
and we and for just two or three minutes
and remember you can't do this wrong and
you can't fake it either it's gonna it's
just going to happen
it'll be fun we're going to we're going
to hear what some of these responses are
that we get it's really exciting okay
here is our here's the prayer I wrote
God during this quiet time I pray that
my writing will reflect that my life is
presently being guided by unselfishness
honesty purity and love I pray to now
open myself to receive your guidance and
direction I pray for the will to take
your direction in a timely manner that I
may continue to grow spiritually and
experience a profound life of serenity
and joy amen okay let's do our writing
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okay we'll stop there I was about four
minutes it's a long time when we sit
quietly with our higher power isn't it
feels good well thank you for doing this
exercise with us we realize that these
messages can be very personal and are
normally discussed with only your
sponsor or sharing partner however if
you believe the group can benefit from
what you have received for asking you to
share it with us now in addition you
will be helping those who are still
struggling with the 11th step to see how
God discloses themself to us
love and tolerance of others is our code
and we have ceased fighting anything or
anyone even alcohol for by this time
sanity will have returned
we will seldom be interested in liquor
if tempted we recoil from it as from a
hot flame we react sanely and normally
and we will find that this has happened
automatically we will see that our new
attitude toward liquor has been given us
without any thought or effort on our
part it just comes that is the miracle
of it we are not fighting it neither are
we avoiding temptation we feel as though
we had been placed in a position of
neutrality safe and protected we have
not even sworn off instead the problem
has been removed it does not exist for
us we are neither cocky nor are we
afraid that is our experience that is
how we react so long as we keep in fit
spiritual condition it is easy to let up
on the spiritual program of action and
rest on our laurels we are headed for
trouble if we do for alcohol is a subtle
foe we are not cured of alcoholism what
we really have is a daily reprieve
contingent on the maintenance of our
spiritual condition every day is a day
when we must carry the vision of God's
will into all of our activities how can
I best serve thee thy will not mine be
done these are thoughts which must go
with us constantly we can exercise our
willpower along this line all we wish it
is the proper use of the will much has
already been said about receiving
strength inspiration and direction from
him who has all knowledge in power if we
have carefully followed directions we
have begun to sense the flow of his
spirit into us to some extent we
become god conscious we've begun to
develop this vital sixth sense but we
must go further and that means more
action
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