Perhaps there is more to Step Seven than meets the eye. We forget the call to action in the Seventh Step Prayer.
In this essay, I contend that removing defects is not passive. We take actions; we donβt merely leave it to God.
Trudging into the 4th dimension
Andy Crooks writing as Andy C
Here I explore at greater length particular subjects and thoughts on how I have learned to use the Steps. These are more thoughtful and considered than blogs and take more time to digest.
I love AA. I love its history, its principles and its Members.
It is, as many have said, the most important social movement of the last century. But its early explosive growth and the adoption of its principles by hundreds of clones from Cocaine to Gambling has evolved to a flattened growth curve and a loss of the sense of adventure that the Founders possessed. We are, I believe, moving in the wrong direction.
We are not yet at a crisis point, but we can see it from here. And it is getting closer.
North American numbers have flattened or declined, while the population has grown. Central offices everywhere are in trouble. The statistics, this time, do not lie.
This open letter is my commentary and analysis of the problem β and a solution that is within reach.
The AA Program is a process, not an event. And processes involve sequences of steps. And steps can be both systematized and habituated; both of these, systematization and habituation, are useful qualities in my Program. Habituation of many of the AA principles has been an essential part of my Program and concomitant spiritual development. Habits of thought and action have led to change. And systematization of the Steps has been an important addition to the other practices of the Program such as meetings and 12 Step work.