Find the Power to live your life - It's waiting for you!

My story starts with growing up in a family fragmented by alcoholism, moving into shame, embarrassment, and substance abuse, hitting bottom, finding help in a twelve step group, then finding God there as well. In the years since, God has transformed my life one day at a time into one I would never have dreamed of.

Each week, I will ask my guests these questions in conversation:
1. What were the circumstances that brought you to search for or make contact with a God of your understanding?
2. What was your first experience of God?
3. How does this relationship manifest daily for you?
4. What are your daily practices?
5. What helps your relationship and understanding to grow?
6. How do you pray?
7. Have you had strong spiritual experiences? Can you describe one or some of them?
8. When was the last time you shared your experience with God with a non-believer?
9. Are you willing to guide others?
10. How would you introduce a non-believer to this concept?
11. Two minutes of Belief – please share two minutes of no-holds barred Truth related to your faith and beliefs.
12. Pray together.

For anyone curious about the Twelve Steps of recovery, here are a modified version I would use to guide a non-addictive person in a relationship with a God of their understanding.
1. Admitted that our personal powerlessness has made our lives unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves can provide meaning and positive change in our lives.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a God of our understanding.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to our Higher Power, ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


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