Thursday, January 16th
“I pleaded, ‘If there is a God, please let me know I’m not alone and there’s hope. Please, God, take me out of this pain!’”
Step Eleven suggests we focus our prayers on knowing what our Higher Power wants for us. This guidance helps clear the laundry list of things we want or think we deserve from our prayer practice. Accepting this guidance may change how we pray because we are trying to connect with our Higher Power’s will, not our own.
We discover the humility of praying “only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.” Our Step work enables us to be humble in asking our Higher Power to work through us.
Through prayer and meditation, we broaden our practice of connecting with others, and the more we truly connect with others, the more we improve and expand our conscious contact with God. Little by little, we gain knowledge of God’s will for us.
The first gift I got in sobriety was my relationship with my Higher Power. I transformed from being spiritually disconnected to praying and meditating every day.