Step Eleven

[MajestyJo]

Step Eleven: 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.
"We will want the good that is in us all, even in the
worst of us, to flower and to grow. Most certainly we
shall need bracing air and an abundance of food. But
first of all we shall want sunlight; nothing much can
grow in the dark. Meditation is our step out into the sun."

© 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005;
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 98

This expresses what I have been trying to do for my depression, getting out of myself, getting out of my apartment, exercise and be with other people. Me alone with me is bad company, especially when stinking thinking starts. I have to get rid of the darkness so the light of reason can shine.

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STEP ELEVEN: 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.

"Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul. We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of his strength, and the atmosphere of His grace."

© 1952, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 97-98

It is important for me to remember that this is a four-fold disease and that I need to feed my body, mind and spirit.

So many of my years were spent not being conscious of God and unaware of the void in my life. I just saw myself as dying.

From Grapevine 2006