Thursday Big Book Step Study

October 23rd Writing Assignment

Go to HANDOUT at the top of the web site. Down load the fourth step handouts.

Say the Third step prayer first, then the set aside prayer. Bring God into your inventory.

Continue to write on the five resentments for each; people, institutions, principals.
Write out in 7-9 words “The Cause”.
Write out “The Affects”;
1. self-esteem
2. pride
3. personal relations
4. personal security
5. ambition
6. financial security (pocketbook)
7. sex relations
Write on how each of these are affected.

October 15th Writing Assignment

We started our fourth step tonight.

Instructions:
1.Get a three ring notebook, with lots of filler paper.

2.Write out the “Third Step Prayer”, Serenity Prayer, and Set Aside Prayer, on the first page of notebook.

3. Next page, write: Resentment Part

4. Next page, write: Atleast five people you resent, or are angry at, or have some discomfort around because of their words or actions towards you.

5. Take a separate piece of paper and write, across the paper: I’m resentful at; The Cause; Affects my;
For an example go to Handouts at the top of the main web site.

6. Take your first person from your resentment list and put it under, I’m resent at;

7. Then in 7-9 words put the reason you are resentful or angry. No long and detailed description. HONESTY is vital here. Tell the truth as to why you’re “burned up”.

8. Then put how this resentment affects your:
a.Self-esteem-write on how it was affected
b.Pride-write on it was affected
c. Ambition-write on how it was affected
d. Personal Security-write on how it was affected
e. Personal relations-write on how it was affected
f. Sex relations- write on how it was affected
g. Pocket book-write on how it was affected

Do this for all five and any more resentments against people you wrote down.

October 8th Writing Assignment

words: pages 38-40 AA 12/12
lapses
endurance
valor
binges
determination
victimized
persistent
trial
assurance
remorse
sponsor
exertion
conviction
deflation

AA Big Book pages 63–64
launched
vigorous
strenuous
manifestation

Writing Assignment:
1. Do you believe that you have more problems than just your aclocholism?

2. Have you become persuaded that many problems beside alcohol will not yield to a headlong assault powered by you?

3. Write on: Our whole troble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God’s intention for us.

October 1st, Writing Assignment

Words:
dependence pg. 36
unconscious
juggernout pg. 37
baleful pg. 38

Writing Assignment:
1. What area’s of your everyday life are you putting a “dependence of a HP/God”?
1.a. Is there any area of your everyday life that you are not putting a “depencence on HP/God”?

2. How conscious are you of your dependence on HP/god in your daily life?
2.a. What situations in your daily life contribute to your being uncounscious of your need to be dependent on HP/God?

3. Are you convinced that your “intelligence, backed by willpower” cannot rightly control your inner life, and guarantee your success in the world you live in?
3.a. Write on your experience with trying to control your inner life by your “intelligence backed by willpower”?

4. What is the definition of self-sufficiency as the AA 12/12 describes it on page 37?
4.a. Describe it from your own experience.

5. What do you see when you look in the mirrow? Is it too awful to contemplate, or is it one of a surrendered person who is at peace eith themselves? Or is it some where in between? Write on where your at now.

September 24th Writing Assignment

Words: page 35
care
protection
guidance
Providence
instinct

page 36
ego
independence

Writing Assignments: Page 35
1. Write about how entering your step one fellowship was the beginning of surrendering your self will?

Page 36
2. How does instinct and logic about surrendering to a HP/God always seek to bolster egoism?

3. How does dependence as AA proctices it really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit?

September 9th Writing AssignmentAA 12/12 page 133 Tradition Two

Writing Assignment:
1. After reading Tradition two, write out what it means to you?

2. Have you gone to a business meeting where there was a big difference of opinion, and you saw the positive influence of a elder statesman/women, who helped change the attitude of the group so there was a concensus of opinion?

3. Have you belonged to a group that certain people tried to dominate? How did this make you feel?

3.a. Was there a business meeting and a group discussion about the dominance and how did it all turn out?

4. How does God work through Group Conscious?

September 3rd Writing Assignment

We’ve made it!!!!!!! One year working the steps out of the Big Book together. Wow, it feels terrific……..

Words:
sincerely
reborn

Writing Assignment:
1. “when we took such a position”… What is the position we are sincerely taking?

2. “We had a new Employer.” What does this mean to me and my life?

2.a. What new responsibilities does this bring?

3. Do you believe that your God/HP is all powerful?

3.a. How does this statement play out in your life?

4. Write out each promise and write on your experience with each one. If you have no experience with them, write out how you perceive your life will look like with them.

August 27th Writing Assignment

Words:
will
life
convinced
requirement
virtuous
utopia
retaliate
provocation

Writing Assignment:
1. Are you convinced of the a, b, c’s on page 60?

2. Have you decided to turn your will and life over to God/HP?

3. Just what do you mean by “turning your will and life over” to God/HP?

3.a. Just what do you do, when you turn your will and life over to God/HP?

4. Selfishness, self-centeredness, that we think is the root of our troubles. Do you see this statement as being true in your life?

4.a. Give examples.

5. Read paragraph #4 page 60 to page 61, paragraph #2 and answer all the questions the test asks you.

August 20th Writing Assignment

Words: page 59
complete
abandon

page 60
adherence
principles
pertinent

Writing Assignments:
page 59
1. What do you need to be doing so you are not doing “half measures”?

1.a. What was your life and recovery like when you were doing “half measures”?

2. What does “we stood at the turning point” mean to you?

2.a. Are you willing to go forward to trusting and relying on a HP/God, which is moving on to the Third Step?

3. What does your HP/God’s protection and care look and/or feel like to you?

3.a. Write about the times in your life that you were in “complete abandon”.

page 60

4. Are you willing to grow along spiritual lines?

5. Give one example of when you could “claim spiritual progress”.

August 13th Writing Assignment

Words: Page 58
rarely
thoroughly
constitutionally
incapable
honest
rigorous
balked
nil
absolutely
cunning
Page 59
baffling
powerful

Writing assignment:

1. How does, honesty, openmindedness, and willingness play an important role in staying sober? Write extensively on each one.

2. What does the “it” mean in the title of Chapter 5, How it works? Write on all the possible meanings to you.

3.Write on the promise “How it Works.”

4. What does “thoroughly followed our path” mean to you and your recovery?

4.a. What do you have to do to be thorough in your recovery?

5. Write what “a manner of living which demands righorous honesty” means to you and your recovery.

6. What did you consider “the easier softer way” before you decided to go to any length to recover?

7. Do you believe there is “One who has all power?”

7.a. Do you want to find Him?

7.b. Have you found Him?