Steps Eleven
and
Twelve
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.
Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
"In the first six months of my own sobriety, I worked hard with many alcoholics. Not a one responded. Yet this work kept me sober. It wasn't a question of those alcoholics giving me anything. My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive." Bill W. Grapevine Magazine 1958
Tomorrow I will go into more detail on these steps and how it corresponds so closely with Catholic teachings. After Steps 11 and 12 I will be spending time on the movement loosely referred to as "New Age". I'll be looking at the some of the history and the spreading of this type of thinking and how it is affecting our church today. As always, I will try to be simple and straight forward.
2 comments:
I'll be interested to see your thoughts on New Ageism. Also, when did you first become aware of these creeping practices?
Karen
Gem - While I was "awfc" (away from the church) and living in Sedona (a hotbed of New Ageism) I actually attended a Unity Church. That didn't last long.
Ever since then I have studied up on the subject. Oh gosh - I even owned a complete set of the Course in Miricles but never made it past page one 'cause it was such nonsense.
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