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Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Yesterday, I would have told you I’ve completed four or five Fifth Steps. Now, I believe I am about to embark on the Fifth Step for real for the first time. In AA rooms, you often hear stories of people walking away from their Fifth Step feeling lighter. They speak of the freedom discovered throu...
Step Five: Terrifying Miracles
Mar 13, 2024
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Step Four: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” At treatment, I signed up for the chores no one else wanted. Otherwise, you had to rotate jobs and I preferred just to know what I was supposed to do. I emptied the trash in the communal kitchen and I got up before everyone else to make the first of two pots of coffee that were all we got for the day. (Couldn’t have us ...
Step Four: Searching
Mar 06, 2024
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Step Three: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God." My mom was excited to visit the "butt hut," the weathered gazebo in the back of the women's dorm where smoking was allowed. We sat on the picnic table, grooved with a thousand hieroglyphics, as holy as an ark. She bummed a cigarette from one of the other patients. She smoked occasionally my w...
Step Three: Not Me
Feb 27, 2024
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