15 Temmuz

Our Gray Book says that the point of the Eighth Step is Willingness. Are we Willing to make Amends for all the harms we caused. Some of us had to be Willing to make the list in the first place. Willingness To Try is the Spiritual Principle we want to Practice at this point.

We ask and Pray for Guidance. The prior Steps if worked to the best of our abilities will supply the Faith and Courage that's needed for this Spiritual task. Like any of our Steps the Healing is in the writing.

Parts of our subconscious are unlocked as we write. Revealing each person, place and thing we harmed and how we harmed them; will show us exactly how the disease of addiction affected us. We should also include ourselves on the list because of the Spiritual and mental damage we caused ourselves while hurting others. The purpose of this Step is to Achieve Freedom from the guilt that burdens us.

The Spiritual Principle of Forgiveness will be our focus here. We were already Forgiven by the God Of Our Own Understanding in the previous Steps. Since we're not Greater than God, we Forgive ourselves as well as others.

We become Willing even though in some cases Amends to them won't be practical or possible. Part of the Amends Process is that we are Willing to Change. We learn about personal boundaries and how to Respect boundaries.

We learn that most of the times we were the victimizers and not victims. We look at our side and what we did.

Because of our using, most of us put ourselves in a position to be hurt by others. In the Seventh Step God Forgives us; in the Eighth Step we Forgive us; in the Ninth Step possibly we are Forgiven.

In This Moment: It is Revealed to us that the Twelve Steps are all Amends Steps.