Gri Kitap Yansīmasī
The Eleventh Step helps us, in the face of a problem, to be aware of God. The underlying principle of this Step is God-consciousness.
Gray Book, p. 58 (Step Eleven, Lines 10-12)
Our Basic Text tells us that one of the results of Step Eleven is emotional stability. How many times even after working the Steps and Traditions some of us still experience emotional volatility. This means not stabled at all. Does this make us bad NA members? Are our egos in the form of pride keep us from asking for Help?
Do we feel or think we should be in a better place at this point in our Journey? Then our Sponsors asks us have we been Praying, all of a sudden a bell rings in our heads, DUH! A moment of clarity LOL.
Most of us then realize that the Solution is always in the Steps and Traditions. Step Eleven calls for the seeking to improve a Conscious Contact with the God Of Our Own Understanding. This means we don't stop; it's a consistency through Prayer and Meditation that we maintain this connection. Let's face it; Life is a constant change of situations that happens to us and all around us.
Some might seem like problems that can overwhelm us if we take them on alone. Today we have a Source of Power that can Help us.
We Pray to our God for Guidance in our Recovery. We're Blessed now that we're Clean to participate in our own Lives. Our Gray Book states, "We gradually begin to find some order in the universe, and accept that some power was supplying us with a conscience we had never had before. " We need to continue to Tap into this Power for our Source of Strength.
In This Moment: We will use God-consciousness to Guide us in our Recovery and all our Affairs.