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Steps to the Spirit

Steps to the spirit is about my search for, discovery of, and use of the Spirit to live my life according to the wishes and plans of God. I also call them gifts from God because I believe He has given us these tools to enable us to find a closer relationship with Him. I invite you to join me in this quest that is at times both difficult and extremely fulfilling. I will try to explain how and why it became necessary to surrender, thus enabling me to begin to live according to God"s plan.I will post

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Step #2 – Finding God Once Again(Part 2 )

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2024/09/29

As I continue, I found myself at step number two, I came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity. As in step one, it seemed like my first time seeing or understanding, in my limited way, step number two.I had always had some beliefs in God. It was my self that I had a real problem with. Most of my life I forced myself to be separate from God, mainly because I did not believe God could love a loser like me. But for some reason, those words of the second ste...

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Step #2 – Finding God Once Again (Part 1 )

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2024/09/22

Well, I have just accepted step number one as a “fact” of my life. I was truly at the very lowest point in my existence. Nothing else mattered, other than to run away, keep drinking, and wallow in my bottomed-out self-esteem and self-pity. Now, here comes one of the many miraculous parts of this 12-step program. It is the answer to the problem I recognized and admitted in step one. As you may have heard me say many times before, I easily compared myself to the story about the person that...

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Step #1 – My Enlightenment (Part 3 )

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2024/09/15

So, in the last episode, I drank my way out of the service and began a life that I could only describe as a life of insanity. After all, every single time I drank, it was like a means to an end that was never a good one. The cycle during those years was usually coming off a drunk, usually ending up in some sort of rescue facility, or a cheap room somewhere, getting a job, possibly attending 12 step meetings and becoming involved, (at least on a surface level), and always meeting nice, helpful...

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Step #1 – My Enlightenment (Part 2 )

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2024/09/08

I left off in the last episode or podcast where I was headed into the Army. After running away from home and having a couple of minor run-ins with the law I wanted to get away my parents thought it might be a really good idea for the Army to “straighten me out”. It did not work! I guess I really saw the Army has one big drinking club. I somehow ended up as a military policeman. Basically the Army took a 17-year-old alcoholic and gave him a 45 and a carbine, and sent them off to work. I was lu...

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Step #1 – My Enlightenment (Part 1 )

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2024/09/01

Step number one, when I took it, went like this: “I admitted I was powerless over alcohol, that my life had become unmanageable”. Now, as most of you know, I have developed a personal set of steps, in a form that works for me. So, my version of this step is: “I admitted I was powerless over myself, and that my life had become unmanageable”. By the time I was ready to take this step for real, I was absolutely at the bottom for me. By that time I had been through, (approximately), 20 detox...

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The Steps - How I Do Them (Part 2 - Intro)

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2024/08/25

So, to continue with this introduction, or should I say my introduction to the 12 step program, well, it’s not pretty.The root cause, or reason, for me becoming introduced to or involved with the 12-step program was alcohol. Well, let me correct myself. The root cause was actually my low self-esteem and the inability or unwillingness to incorporate God into my life. My drinking of alcohol was a very destructive and terrible symptom of my underlying lack of self-worth. It was a tool that I cou...

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The Steps How I Do Them (Part 1 - Intro)

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2024/08/18

I have not posted much about the 12 steps in quite some time. It seems like it might be time to take another look at the steps. I’m not going to just rehash what I’ve said before. I’m going to try to take a personal look at the steps from my vantage point. I am going to try, (with as much honesty as I can), to share how I have worked and am working this 12-step program. As those of you who have been following this podcast, or reading my books, know, I believe this program to be a God-given on...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 10)

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2024/08/11

Yes, I am finally at the summary of this series of episodes about the beginnings of our way of life, and how those beginnings are so closely related to the Oxford Group. So, when I think about all of the lists, steps?, And the general way of life given to us by the Oxford Group, I need to let it all go.Although the Oxford group provided us (Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob), with all of the ingredients with which to create our 12 step program, they had to disappear. We now have what has become a new s...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 9)

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2024/08/03

I know, I know, once again this is supposed to be the summary of the influence of the Oxford group on the 12 step program. However I listen to a talk yesterday on the 12 steps and the Oxford group and I discovered some information that I had never, heard before. The speaker, who was anonymous because it was a talk hosted by an Alcoholics Anonymous group, describes what he referred to as, “the 4 steps” of the Oxford group. Well, I certainly couldn’t and these episodes without informing you abo...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 8)

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2024/07/28

Yes, I realize that I was going to write a summary of these past episodes concerning the Oxford group and its connection to the 12 steps. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized that I needed to speak more about the last episode and the Four Absolutes we have inherited from the Oxford group. Whereas the 12 step program is not a direct continuation of the Oxford Group concepts, they are, in my opinion, totally derive from the Oxford Group Movement.So, I’m going to use this epi...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 7)

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2024/07/21

This episode is about a list of four items that I discovered as I was reading some information about the Oxford group. It is a list of four, I guess you might call them “ideas”, that I think is the most comprehensive and straightforward list of all of the lists in the Oxford group.This list is not included in the chart that you can find in my description of episode 24. The list is:The 4 Absolutes1. Honesty2. Purity3. Unselfishness4. LoveWhen I first saw this list, I thought, “Wow! This is a l...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 6)

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2024/07/14

In this episode I will be speaking about the six basic assumptions. They are listed below: The 6 basic assumptions1. Men are sinners;2. Men can be changed;3. Confession is prerequisite to change;4. The changed soul has direct access to God;5. The ‘Age of Miracles’ has returned;6. Those who have been “changed” must “change others.” As you can see, although they are in line with the tenets of the 12 step program, I think the language, when compared to today’s spirituality needs ...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 9)

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2024/07/13

I know, I know, once again this is supposed to be the summary of the influence of the Oxford group on the 12 step program. However I listen to a talk yesterday on the 12 steps and the Oxford group and I discovered some information that I had never, heard before. The speaker, who was anonymous because it was a talk hosted by an Alcoholics Anonymous group, describes what he referred to as, “the 4 steps” of the Oxford group. Well, I certainly couldn’t and these episodes without informing you abo...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 5)

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2024/07/07

In this episode, we shall be looking at the next list from the Oxford Group. This list has four items in it and is called 4 Spiritual Practices. They are as follows:4 Spiritual Practices. (Expanded) 1¶. The sharing of our sins and temptations with another Christian. Life given all to God and sharing as witness to help others still unchanged, to recognize and acknowledge their sins.2¶. Surrender our life passed, present, and future, into God’s keeping and direction. 3. Restitution to all we ha...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 4)

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2024/06/30

The 5 Procedures:1. Give in to God2. Listen to God’s direction3. Check Guidance4. Restitution5. Sharing – For witness and for confession In this episode I’m going to speak about yet another list from the Oxford group. This one is called the five procedures and I’ve listed them above. As you can see, these procedures are also in line with the overall ideas of the 12 steps.In the first procedure it says to “give into God”. This., Along with the second procedur...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 3)

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2024/06/23

This week we’re going to talk about the next in a group of list tidbits that I have found connected to the Oxford group.This particular tidbit is called “The Five C’s”. Here is the list1. Conviction2. Confession3. Contrition4. Conversion5. ContinuingSo, I believe the first thing we have to remember, is that this list was probably written in the early 1900s. In today’s language we might refer to number 1 as “yeah I did that”, number 2 as “hey, can I talk to you about something?”, number 3, “I’...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 2)

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2024/06/16

So, my friends, even though I have heard about the Oxford group in the past, I am learning so much more as I revisit it. A couple of years ago I created a chart that compares the different ideas of the Oxford group to the 12 step program. I was amazed then, and I am still amazed, that every single group of ideas from the Oxford group relate directly to the 12 step program.Of course, we know of the influence love Ebby Thatcher on Bill Wilson. Debbie was a good friend of Bill’s and I would go a...

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The Beginnings of a Way of Life! (Part 1)

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2024/06/09

I have been thinking about all of the information that I have been talking about in these podcasts. Of course, it is all about the 12 steps. However, lately I have been feeling like I haven’t given enough background on what the 12 steps are all about and how they got started. So I am going to use the next (few) episodes to talk about but I feel are the real origins of the 12 step program.Most of you who have been with me for a while are aware that I use the first edition of what is commonly r...

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The Move

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2024/06/02

So, I feel that sometimes, okay, most of the time, I am sharing with you the wonderful connection I developed with my Spirit as a result of this 12 step program. I don’t think I am sharing the human part of me and all its foibles as much as I could. I really hope that I do not sound like I am pontificating. That is certainly not my intent. It would be so easy to suggest that you do what I say and not do what I do.I have been thinking that it may be helpful for me to include you in some of my ...

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Loving Ourselves

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2024/05/26

Now that we are done with the promises, there are a few things I have thought about in the past couple of weeks. They have to do with what happens to us in my day-to-day experiences.Everything I speak about in these podcasts has to do with my 12-step program. These steps are the guidance for my humanity. They are not my spiritual program. The spiritual me is the me that listens for the inspiration of my Spirit and God. The 12 step program, however, is that way of life that puts me in a positi...

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