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“If you stay dishonest, self-seeking, frightened and inconsiderate

it must be because you want to”

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We’ve completed our first seven Steps knowing full well we’re going to be working on Steps 6 & 7 for the rest of our lives, trying to change as the opportunity comes up. Now we’ve read in the book where we are

       (a) spiritually sick,

            (b) mentally sick and

                    (c) physically sick

when the spiritual malady is overcome we straighten out

mentally and physically (p. 64, par. 4)

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moreover, we begin to look at those things and begin to realize that all human beings really are born to live in three Dimensions of life.

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So we were sick spiritually, mentally, and physically. The book talks about a design for living, and it looks to us that

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these steps are designed in such a manner to put us back together

and make us well in all three dimensions of life

as God intended for us to be in the first place.

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Steps 1, 2 & 3: We got right with the Spirit (first Dimension). Because we were powerless, we saw the need for the power.

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Step 3: We decided to go after that power, and we made a decision that God was going to be the Director. He’s the Father, we’re the children. He’s the Employer; we’re the employee (we work for him).

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For most of us that’s the first time we’ve had that relationship with God in many years. We got the right relationship in 1, 2 & 3. That removes self-will, to let us begin to look into our own minds.

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Step 4 & 5: We found out those things that block us off from God, that block us off from our fellow man which creates the resentments, fears and the guilt.

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Steps 6 and 7 we begin to work on those things that are OBJECTIONABLE.

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We begin to get right in our minds through 4, 5, 6 & 7 (second Dimension). That removes just enough self-will, to begin to look at our relationship with the world and everybody in it. Now through 4, 5, 6 & 7 we got rid of these resentments and fears to the level that God intended them to be.

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But we haven’t really done anything about the storeroom that’s filled with guilt and remorse associated with the harms we’ve done in the past.

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And if we want to get right in the Physical Dimension, which is our relationship with the world and everybody in it, it’s long been known that the way you do that, is to make restitution for the things done in the past.

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Then, guilt and remorse begin to disappear. Nobody likes to do Steps 8 & 9 (third Dimension). The only question is can we afford not to do that?

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It looks like if we don’t do that (Steps 8 & 9) the guilt and remorse kind of keeps chewing at us.

After a while it begins to bother our relationship with the world and everybody in it

– we start getting sick in our head.

After a while that backs up and blocks us off from God and we end up drunk/using again.

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