Spiritual Awakenings and Experiences – 296
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🗓️ 9 July 2019
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What was your spiritual awakening? What spiritual experiences have you had? Step 12 starts with “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps…”. The AA “Big Book” speaks of “a spiritual experience” as a key to recovery. What's going on here? Do we have to have some sudden “white light” experience to...
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| 0:00.0 | What spiritual |
| 0:04.0 | experiences have you had? |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to episode 296 of the recovery show. |
| 0:10.0 | This episode is brought to you by Catherine, Patricia, Hannah, and Lucretia. |
| 0:14.0 | They used the donation button on our website. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you, Catherine, Patricia, Hannah, and Lucretia for your generous contributions. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:22.0 | We are friends and family members. This episode is for you. |
| 0:23.0 | We are friends and family members of Alcoholics and Attics |
| 0:26.0 | who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:28.0 | We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction, |
| 0:32.0 | understand as perhaps a few others can. |
| 0:34.2 | So much depends on our attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:40.4 | Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program. |
| 0:46.0 | During this show we will share our own experiences. |
| 0:49.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 0:52.0 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 0:54.3 | We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer and I'm your host today. |
| 1:01.0 | So as I recall, a listener wrote in a while back and suggested the topic of spiritual awakening or spiritual experience and I asked you to contribute your own awakenings or experiences and several of you did. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm going to start where does this phrase spiritual awakening come from? |
| 1:21.0 | Well it's in step 12, which begins having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps. |
| 1:29.1 | And I sort of wonder, well, what is this thing? Spiritual awakening. Here's a little bit of the step 12 |
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