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The Eleventh Step in the Basic Text says, "Through prayer we seek conscious contact with our God. In meditation we achieve this contact and the Eleventh Step helps us maintain it." Many of us refer to Prayer as speaking with the God of Our Own Understanding and Meditation as listening to that God. In active addiction many of us treated whatever God we thought we had like a cosmic bellboy.

Most of whatever Praying we did was in the form of "foxhole prayers. " In desperation, we ask for our immediate wants. We asked, but did not listen to any answer or Solution.

Most of us didn't have a working relationship with God, reality or with others. In Narcotics Anonymous we're told that we need a Loving Power Greater than ourselves to achieve and maintain Recovery. Although this Power brought us to Step Eleven, we must continue to seek and improve this Conscious Contact.

Some of us Pray for specific things because we still think we know what's good for us. We forget that we're not running the show. Sometimes we ask for specific things, and then we asked for them to be removed when we get it.

Most of the time it's because we don't Achieve the contact by listening in Meditation. We sometimes take actions without thinking of the consequences or our motives.

This Step asks us to Pray for God's Will for us, not our Will for ourselves. We learn to Trust that the Power that got us and keeps us Clean and Recovering is still with us. As we Recover, we will see that God's Will for us is what we need to Live a Fulfilled Life.

We learn to keep God's Will first. As we Progress through the Steps and Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous, we develop God Awareness and Consciousness. Our Prayers change as we Achieve the Meditation part because now we wait for the answer.

Sometimes the answer is no, sometimes it's yes, and sometimes, not now. We learn that this Power is our Greatest Source of Strength.

In This Moment: We will learn the Power of Prayer and Meditation. We will use this Spiritual Principle responsibly.