April 3
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For you alone
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“The idea of a spiritual awakening takes many different forms in the different personalities that we find in the fellowship.”
Basic Text, p. 49
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Though we all work the same steps, each of us experiences the
spiritual awakening resulting from them in our own way. The shape that
spiritual awakening takes in our lives will vary, depending on who we
are.
For some of us, the spiritual awakening promised in the Twelfth
Step will result in a renewed interest in religion or mysticism. Others
will awaken to an understanding of the lives of those around them,
experiencing empathy perhaps for the first time. Still others will
realize that the steps have awakened them to their own moral or ethical
principles. Most of us experience our spiritual awakening as a
combination of these things, each combination as unique as the
individual who’s been awakened.
If there are so many different varieties of spiritual
awakenings, how do we know if we’ve truly had one? The Twelfth Step
provides us with two signs: We’ve found principles capable of guiding
us well, the kind of principles we want to practice in all our affairs.
And we’ve begun to care enough about other addicts to freely share with
them the experience we’ve had. No matter what the details of our
awakenings are like, we all are given the guidance and the love we need
to live fulfilling, spiritually oriented lives.
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Just for today: Regardless of its particular shape, my
spiritual awakening has helped me fill my place in the world with love
and life. For that, I am grateful.
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