The 12 Step Program - Step 5 (Part 6)

This is the last episode motel talk about step number five. Again, to remind you, this step is: admitted to God to myself and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.

For many of us, the fourth step is the place for us to really examine our life so far especially those things where we feel like we have not followed the direction that we might have been given by God. If you’re anything like me, especially when I did my final rendition of the fourth step, I was very wordy. I actually think it was symbolic in the way because I was starting to get rid of my ego and pride. When I look back on that fourth step, I realize how puffed up it was, even though I was trying to do that step right, it contained a lot of descriptive text that really did not need to be there.

It is my feeling that when I am referencing those things as I’m doing the fifth step, no matter which percentage I am doing it with, including God, I really need to tone it down. This step is not asking me to read from our fourth step until someone or reminisce over my misspent d life history. In this step I need to be talking about the nature of my wrongs, not necessarily each individual wrong that I did. And this does not mean the things that I did as I was involved in whatever powerlessness I had. For instance, I happen to be an alcoholic. This step is not mean that I should talk about those things I did when I was drinking or drunk. It simply did not say, when I was drinking or drunk, when I was over reading, when I was under the influence of drugs. This is a rehash of our life choices, whether or not we were under the influence of something else. For instance, I may have had an argument with a significant other and got so angry that I jumped in my car and drove like a madman. I ende now d up causing property damage or, God forbid, hurting someone. I may not have been under the influence of anything in this incident, but you can certainly know that I need to talk about it in my fourth and fifth steps. In my fourth step and might’ve described the incident as it happened, and in my fifth step I would talk about the nature that wrong, i.e., that was prone to anger, and at times was only concerned about myself and not the safety of others.

In other words, I may speak about the fact that I was a thief and unnecessarily each individual thing that I stole this is where, if we, hopefully, chose the right person with which to do this fifth step, we can get good sound advice about how to not do these things, (from a human perspective), in the future.

It’s Assuming that I am doing these steps as they were met today done thus far, well, I am aware that I always have God’s protection and power with me. But even though we have a spiritual tabula rasa, it may take a while for us to retrain this human personality of ours. Don’t worry. If you have turned your will and your life over to God, your life will work out just as it should.