Step #11 – Keeping in Touch(part 4)

Steps to the Spirit

In this episode, I will be speaking about the last phrase in step number 11, “and the power to carry that out”.

At this point in my life, I find that I am constantly returning to the words of the first few steps in this program. For instance, in the first step I referred to my powerlessness, (over everything), and that my life was not manageable. In essence I was living a life of (as described in step number two) insanity, or insane behavior. So, sticking with the second step, “I came to believe that a power could restore me to sanity”. This is very same power is that to which I refer and step number 11

What I need to say here is that now is not the time to start looking for this power. This power is ours for the taking or maybe I should say asking, as a result of step number three. This is where I have turned my will and my life over to the care of God. All the power I will ever need, flows through and around me from my Spirit, as a result of saying “ye”s to God. Some parts of this program can be done piecemeal, but I do not believe that developing my union with God is one of them. This is also why I am certain that this God-given program has been designed in an order that demand that we follow it. In the second step we learned that there was hope for that insanity we discovered in the first step. The third step provides us with the most simple yet most difficult decision we will ever make in our lives. This is where I surrendered to God’s way. This is where I knew that everything was going to be okay. This led me to cleaning up the wreckage of my past by identifying the problems, asking God to take them away for me, making amends to those I had harmed, and accepting the methods to continue my life in a way that would be pleasing to God. A piece of cake, right? Well, for those of us who are working the program, there is the assurance of an ultimate, wonderful, reality. You also know what I mean when I say we have to work for it.