Thursday Big Book Step Study

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Tradition Seven pgs. 160 – 165

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Tradition Seven pgs. 160 – end 165

Words:

160:1
1. habitual
2. supposition
160:2
3. aversion
161:1
4. benefactors
5. havoc
163:3
6. boasted
165:1
7. prudent
8. reserve

Writing Assignment:

1. “There is a place in A.A. where spirituality and money would mix and that was in the hat.” Write on that as you have learned from reading Tradition Seven.
1a. Write on your own experience with this statement.

2. Gratitude for our sobriety and our Step One Fellowships is an action word. What actions are you doing to show your gratitude?
2a. Is supporting your group part of your gratitude actions?

3. “Whoever pays the piper is apt to call the tune.” What does this mean to you in your personal life?

4. Find out what home group keeps in its treasury?
4a. Find out what is your group’s decision on how much money by group conscience is kept.

5. Integrity. A.A. taught us what integrity with money is in Tradition Seven. It also teaches us that we must have integrity in all our affairs.
How are we doing in the area of integrity with money?
5a. How are we doing the area of integrity in all other areas.

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven pg74: – end 76

Word:

1. transformed

Writing Assignment:

1. Humility is the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. Writing on your expeirence with this statement.

2. We began to fear pain less and desire humility more than ever. Write on this, too.

3. “Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the work, began to carry bright promise and meaning.” Write on that statement.
3a. What is the bright promise Bill talks about?
3b. What is the new meaning for our lives that Bill is talking about in this statement?

4. The chief actitvator of our charcter defects have been self-centered feard, primarily fear, that we would lose something that we already possess or that we would fail to get something we demanded.
Go back into the past few weeks and pull out examples of this statement and write about them.

A.A Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven, pgs. 73:2 – end 74:1

Words:

73:2

1. consternation

2. goaded

Writing Assignment:

1. Read AA’s Big Book “HOW IT WORKS” up to page 64 which is Step Three. Write about how Step Three and Step Seven are alike. Write about how they are different to you in your recovery today.

2. Has humility ever meant humiliation to you?

2a. Has humility now begun, in your life, to mean one of the nourishing ingredients which can give you serenity.

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven, pg. 72:2 – 73:1

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven, pg. 72:2 – end 73:1

Word:

72:2
1. humiliation

Writing Assignment:

Writing Assignment:
1. Humility is a desire to seek and do God’s will. Write on what this means to you?

2. This is what we were forced to do by the repeated humiliation our addictions gave us?

1. Admit complete defeat.
2. Come into Step One Fellowship.
3. Realize we could not put down and keep down our addiction even with our Step One Fellowship, sponsor and community without acquiring a belief in a God of my understanding.
4. Deciding that I will turn my addictions and everything else (character defects and shortcomings) over to the care of my Higher Power/God.
Write on this process.

2a. Take a incident in your day today that you can see a character defect and put it through the above steps.

AA Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven pgs. 71:2 – end 72:1

A.A Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Step Seven pg. 71:2- end 72:1

Words:

72:1
1. exclusively
2. barren

Writing Assignment:

1. Character building and spiritual values need to be our first priorities instead of becoming materially successful. Why do you think Bill wrote this?
1a. What is your experience with this statement?
1b. Where are you today with this statement?

2. What constitutes happiness for you?
2a. What happens when you choose comfort over character building?

3. How can we make;
a. Honest y.
b. Tolerance.
c. True love of others and God the daily basis of living.
3a. What do you truly want?
3b. Are you doing it now and if not are you willing to start doing it now?

4. Is there any areas in your life that you are still agnostic?

5. As long as we place self-reliance first a general reliance on a Higher Power was out of the questions?

6. Self -reliance availed nothing. We stood at the turning point; Where are you going to turn?