Thursday Big Book Step Study

 

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AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six pgs. 68:1 – end 69

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradition, Step Six, pg.68:0 – end 69
Words:

Writing Assignment:

68:1
1.implication
2. perfection
3. ideals
4. urgent
68:2
5. venture
6. open-mindedness
69:0
7. obliged
69:1
8. dispose
9. hazardous
10. pardoned
11. rationalizing
12. indefinitely
69:2
13. abandon

1. Are you willing to raise your eyes toward perfection?
1a. Are you willing to do the action required to walk in that direction?

2. The only question is am I ready today?

3. The acronym for YET. Your Eligible Too. Write on this acronym.

4. Write on the difference between this (character defects) I cannot give up yet and this (character defects) I will never give up.

5. What does the “Grace of God” mean to you today in your recovery and in your life?

 

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AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradition, Step Six, pg.66:0 – end of 68:0

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradition, Step Six, pg.66:0 – end of 68:0

Words:

66:2
1. exhult
2. superior
3. masquerade
67:1
4. preserve
67:2
5. warped
6. attribute
7. slothful
68:0
8. obliged

Writing Assignment:

1. But when we face up to these less violent aspects of these very same character defects, (see paragraph on the character defects page 67 paragraph 1) and where do you stand?

2.What character defects are bothersome to you but not causing excessive misery?
2a. Are you willing to ask Higher Power/God to take them away?

3. Are you going to drive for a self-determined objective so you can “get by” in this world or are you going to strive for the perfect objective which is of Higher Power/God?

 

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AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six, pgs.64:3 – 66:0,4

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six, pg.64:3 – 66:0,4

Word:

65:3
1. derelictions

Writing Assignment:

1.When you first put down your addiction did you think you would become just about perfect and/or your life would perfect?

2.How does Higher Power/God need your cooperation (addiction/character defects)?

3.How is stating Step Six AA’s way of stating the best possible attitude you can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job of letting go of your character defects?

4.Have you been patient with improvements of your character defects over the span of time and recovery?
4a. Write about what improvements you can see has happened up to now?

5.What do you do when a character defect rare its ugly head?

 

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AA Big Book “INTO ACTION” Step Six, pg. 76:1 and AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six, pg. 63 -end 64:3

Words:

AA Big Book “INTO ACTION” Step Six, pg. 76:1
76:1
1. cling
AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Six, pg. 63
63:1
2. reservations
63:2
3. affirmative
64:1
4. obstinate
64:3
5. defying
6. instinctive
7. abhor

Writing Assignment:
(from AA Big Book pg.76:1)

1. Are we now ready to let Higher Power/God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable?

2. Can your Higher Power/God now take them all/everyone?

3. Do you still cling to something you will not let go of?

4. Are you willing to ask your Higher Power/God to help you be willing?

 

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AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Five, pgs. 59:1 – end 62

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step 5 pgs. 59:1 – end 62

Words:

59:2
1. astray
60:0
2. theoretical
60:1
3. garbled
4. rationalization
5. deluded
6. arrant
7. infallible
61:0
8. prudence

Writing Assignment:

1.What are some of the benefits Bill tells us will come as a result of doing the Fifth Step?

2.What are the qualities I desire and need in a Fifth Step witness?
2a. Do I know of someone who has these qualities?
2b. Am I willing to take the risk to go and ask them to hear my Fifth Step?

3. What are the cautions that Bill talks about in Step Five of not having a witness to hear our Fifth Step?