On Awakening - An 11th Step Guided Morning Meditation

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thank you for allowing me

to await to yet another beautiful day

I am grateful for the beauty of all your

creations

and I am Overjoyed by the Wonders around

and in me

thank you for my life

amen

the set aside prayer

let us pray

please help set aside everything I think

I know

about myself

my disease

the big book

and the 12 steps

everything I think I know about the

program

the fellowship

all spiritual terms

and especially

about you

so I may have an open mind and a new

experience

please help me see the truth

the Serenity Prayer let us pray

God

grant me the serenity

to accept the things I can

I get courage

to change the things I get

and the wisdom

to know the difference

living one day at a time

enjoying one moment at a time

accepting hardships as the pathway to

peace

taking as he did this sinful world as it

is

not as I would have it trusting

that he will make all things right

if I surrender to his will

that I may be reasonably happy in this

life

and supremely happy

with him forever

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no Awakening let us think about the 24

hours ahead

we consider our plans for the day before

we begin

we ask God to direct our thinking

especially asking that it be divorced

from self-pity

dishonest or self-seeking motives

under these conditions we can employ our

mental faculties with assurance

for after all God gave us brains to use

our thought life will be placed on a

much higher plane when our thinking is

cleared of wrong motives

let us pray

God

I ask that you direct my thinking today

I ask especially let it be divorced from

self-pity

dishonest or self-seeking motives

amen

in thinking about our day we may face

indecision

we may not be able to determine which

course to take here we ask God for

inspiration an intuitive thought or a

decision

we relax

take it easy

we don't

struggle

we are often surprised how the right

answers come after we have tried this

for a while

let us pray

God when problems arise today

I ask for inspiration

an intuitive thought or a decision

I ask that you help me relax

take it easy

help me not struggle

what used to be the hunch or the

occasional inspiration gradually becomes

a working part of the Mind

being still inexperienced and having

just made conscious contact with God

it is not probable

that we are going to be inspired at all

times we might pay for this presumption

in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas

nevertheless we find that our thinking

will as time passes be more and more on

the plane of inspiration

we come to rely upon it

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let us meditate

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we usually conclude the period of

meditation with a prayer that we be

shown all through the day what our next

step is to be that we be given whatever

we need

to take care of such problems

we ask especially for freedom from

self-will and are careful to make no

request for ourselves only

we may ask for ourselves however if

others will be helped

we are careful never to pray

for our own selfish ends

many of us have wasted a lot of time

doing that

and it doesn't work

you can easily see why

let us pray

God I ask that you show me

throughout the day what my next step

should be that I be given whatever I

need to take care of my problems

I ask especially for freedom from

self-will

if circumstances warrant we ask our

wives or friends to join us in morning

meditation if we belong to a religious

denomination with a definite morning

devotion we attend to that also

if not members of religious bodies we

sometimes select and memorize a few set

prayers which emphasize the principles

we have been discussing

there are many helpful books also

suggestions about these may be obtained

from one's priest minister or rabbi

be quick to see where religious people

are right

make use of what they offer

page 63 the third step prayer

let us pray

God I offer myself to thee

to build with me and to do with me

as thou Wilt

relieve me of the bondage of self that I

may better do

thy will

take away my difficulties

that victory over them may bear witness

to those I would help of thy power

thy love

and language of life

may I do thy will always

page 76 the seventh Step Prayer

let us pray

my creator

I am now willing that you should have

all of me good and bad I pray that you

now remove from me every single defect

of character which stands in the way of

my usefulness to you and my fellows

grant me strength as I go out from here

to do your video

amen

let us pray

God I ask that you show me what I can do

for the man who is still sick our

creator I ask you to show me the way of

patience tolerance

as we go through the day we pause when

agitated or doubtful and ask for the

right thought or action

we constantly remind ourselves we are no

longer running the show

humbly saying to ourselves many times

each day

thy will be done

we are then in much less danger of

excitement fear anger worry self-pity or

foolish decisions we become much more

efficient we do not tire so easily for

we are not burning up energy foolishly

as we did when we were trying to arrange

life

to suit ourselves

it works

it really does

we alcoholics are undisciplined

so we let God discipline Us in the

simple way we have just outlined

let us pray

I ask for the strength

to pass when agitated or doubtful and