Tuesday, 19 April 2005

Step Five
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: alcoholism
" Admitted to God to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs" Big Scary Step that many of us try and bypass.. This is a very important step and if you have done the fourth step then you should do fifth step as soon as possible .
Now let us talk about who this step should be done with ..It is very important that you choose wisely who you will share with . It should be a sponsor, a priest or the family pastor . It should be someone that you trust to keep your confidantes.. My sponsor was very wise she did this in her home with plenty of food . She made it seem easily to talk to her. We went through the cards of my fourth step and we took notes about some of my character defeats and who might be on the list of person I had wronged for later steps.. When we were done we ask my higher power in a small prayer to take these wrongs and forgive me . Then we burned the forth step in the sink in an act that would symbolized that they were gone and that I had a clean slate. I will not say to you it was an easy step because nobody wants anyone else to know what wrongs they have done.. I will say that it was the step that after it was done I felt much better about myself .I did not have to carry with me all those wrongs I could set them free and give them to my higher power.
I think the reason we have to tell another person the exact nature of our wrongs is because to say it out loud means that we really have to hear it .You have to tell God,yes,but if it were only God then you would not necessary be say it out loud. It maybe just a thought but this way you have form the sentences in your mind and this make it a far more real experience . It was for me anyway ..

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