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In Step 11 of the 12-Step program of A.A. we are invited through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and the power to carry it out.

Many of us struggle to recognize the difference between asking and demanding.

How can I get discernment? What do I do with it when I get it?

Today is a day to honour Fathers. Some of us are Fathers.

How do we feel when people who should know us don’t?

People with discernment will naturally do the right thing in each situation.

On pages 83-84 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous we read twelve promises that will happen as we diligently work the twelve steps.

Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.

Recovery meetings have common formats from place to place and there is structure to the way things are done.

Step 10 of the 12-Step program advises us to continue to take personal inventory and, when we are wrong, promptly admit it.

Judging others is a problem area for many of us and something that Jesus tells us needs to change if we are to live well in recovery and in life.

T Often when we come into recovery we miss our old way of life and the people we socialized with.