{"id":498,"date":"2018-09-10T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drschuller.org\/?p=498"},"modified":"2020-03-08T06:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T06:15:45","slug":"addiction-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drschuller.org\/addiction-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting as the guest of a good friend. She celebrated 18 years of sobriety and received her 18-year coin. What a beautiful experience as we listened to her grateful testimony sharing how A.A. saved her life. The many testimonies of people who had anywhere from a few weeks to 20 plus years of sobriety was inspirational and humbling.<\/p>\n

God is at the center of this program. It is based on letting go of control and perfectionism, things that have not worked for helping live a productive, honest, sober life.<\/p>\n

Here are The Twelve Steps:<\/h4>\n
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  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol\u2014that our lives had become unmanageable.<\/li>\n
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.<\/li>\n
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. <\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.<\/li>\n
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.<\/li>\n
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.<\/li>\n
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.<\/li>\n
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.<\/li>\n
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.<\/li>\n
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.<\/li>\n
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him<\/em>, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.<\/li>\n
  12. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    If you, or anyone you know needs help with addiction please contact us and will help you.\u00a0\u00a0 Donna@SchullerMinistries.org<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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