Reading through Step 7 in the 12×12 (The Twelve Steps and 12 Traditions) today with a sponsee we had some helpful discussion and revelations. Now she has “Humbly asked God to remove these shortcomings.”
The Step 7 discussion focused on how we make choices we often regret when we are in fear over losing things that we already have, or not acquiring what we want. As I reminded my sponsee about the Promises, about how the Big Book says that before we are halfway through we will find a new joy, a new freedom and happiness, she nodded knowingly. She has already been experiencing the Promises. She has seen that as her former choices to react to situations shifts to how to respond with more helpful behaviors, the miracles are happening.
And these are seemingly small changes in behavior. Yet, these small changes have led her to enjoy more time with her husband, try some new activities that she was never open to before – and she so enjoyed herself – and have dimished the stress that she’s experienced during some life transitions. Little miracles are happening in her life; calls from new friends to join them for social events, fun with her husband, opportunities for her to make positive contributions to others without interfering with her ability to take care of herself, a new job. And she wasn’t even halfway through the 12 Steps when these miracles started happening – just like it says in the book. How usual. How wonderful. This is how it works.
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Affirmation for the Day – ” I am willing to change.”
Remember to say the affirmation at least 3 times whenever you remember it, preferably in front of a mirror.
Course In Miracles Lesson – I will not use the body’s eyes today.
Practice – In Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to us, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will we perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Children acknowledge their Father, lets the Father’s dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time, which ends forever as Your memory returns to them. And now their will is one with Yours. Their function now is but Your own, and every thought except Your own is gone.
