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Step Eleven suggests prayer and meditation.
Step 11, page 86 was my entree into formal step action. A night meeting speaker dwelled upon each sentence from "On awakening to end of chapter..........."
I was desperate at a sober bottom. Each morning thereafter, I did pick up the Big Book and contemplated each sentence/direction.
Recently, almost 19 years later, I realized that the first directions help clear the mind. Then, it shifts to contemplation about higher power and directive to other sources.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
I am from Texas - it is where I got clean. My first sponsor gave me an example of the 10th step by referring to it like this - imagine if every day you woke up and god gave you a perfectly white T-shirt, it fit beautifully. You were instructed to wear it daily. Before you went to sleep each night - God wants you take off the T-shirt, look at it and examine if you got anything on the T-shirt, like dirt, stains... you will get things on the shirt and the goal is to take inventory of where the dirt and stains came from. Did you intentionally wipe your mouth on the shirt - if so admit it and try not to do it again. If there is a stain and you do not know why or how it got there - no worries. Just be aware that every day God will give you a new beautiful T-shirt - try to keep it clean.
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