Session #3 – Steps 6, 7, 8, & 9 (Day 2) Session #3 – Steps 6, 7, 8, & 9 (Day 2) My name is __________ and I’m an alcoholic. [Both leaders introduce themselves] Before we begin, let’s have a moment of silence to invite the God of our own understanding into our hearts and ask for an open mind and the willingness to have anew experience followed by the “Serenity Prayer”… Yesterday we took the first three steps in our Program of Recovery. We began our 4 th Step inventories together in class and briefly covered the directions for sharing our inventories with our sponsors and the God of our own understanding in Step Can I have a show of hands of who completed their 4 th and 5 th Steps with their sponsor or spiritual advisor yesterday Take a count.] Congratulations! For the people who didn’t complete Steps 4 & 5 we hope you will do so in the immediate future. The pioneers of our AA program showed us that it wasn't necessary to make our housecleaning along, drawn-out, arduous process. They got their miracle quickly. And from talking to folks that have gone through the Steps in these Beginners’ Classes, they too get their miracle quickly. This is living proof that if it worked for our founders in the sands, then it can also work for us in the year We ask the people who didn’t complete Steps 4 & 5 to please listen closely to what we’ll be covering today. You’ll be able to take the remaining steps and apply the tools we’ll be discussing to your daily life once you move forward in the work. Use today’s sessions as motivation to complete your personal house cleaning. Let’s read the Promises of Step 5 on page 75 of the Big Book. If we have taken our 4 th and 5 th Steps as the Big Book has instructed us to do, then we will have received these results on page 75. Turn to page 75, - second paragraph: “We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We may
