"A Hunger For Healing"

This is something that I put together a couple of years ago. But I think that the information here is very valuable, so I am reposting it for those who may not have seen it when it was first posted:

Twelve Steps of Sinners Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over our Sin, that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awaking as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

There is a couple at my church that have a real heart for people and helping them along their journey towards being the people that God intended them to be. Every Monday night we have a meeting. Each week of the month we read something different - on the 3rd Monday night of the month we read " A Hunger for Healing" by J. Keith Miller.

"It is the pain of living that creates a hunger for healing that only God can satisfy."

 

"...the Twelve Steps bring biblical principles of faith to bear on the pain of contemporary people in a way that leads sufferers into a closer living relationship with God and frees them to live a meaningful life seeking God's will."

 

You do not have a to be an alcoholic in order for the 12 steps to help you. The principles are very helpful to everyone. There is a lot of unhealthy thinking that many of us do and those habits that we get into turn into character defects. This program helps us to realize what our character defects are and helps us turn them into assets. Well that is what I have been told. I am still in the process of this journey in my life. These meetings have been very beneficial to me.

The AA program was developed back in 1935 but it is still very relevant to us today.