Please help me think this through...

[Glory Ressler]

Doug:
Your post also made me think of the 12 Step Tradition (AA, Al-Anon, Adult
Children of Alcoholics) which I was steeped in as a 'young' woman. Steps 4,
5, 8, 9 and 10 are particularly relevant to your ruminations, I think. See
the complete list below...
Glory :-)

The Twelve Steps Of Alcoholics Anonymous

  1.. We admitted we were powerless - that our lives had become
unmanageable.
  2.. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us
to sanity.
  3.. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
as we understood Him.
  4.. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5.. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
  6.. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7.. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8.. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make
amends to them all.
  9.. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
  10.. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
  11.. 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.
  12.. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in
all our affairs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:24 AM
Subject: Please help me think this through...


> To my good friends--
>
> Would you be so kind as to help me think this through?

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