We are achieving freedom from the wreckage of our past.
Basic Text, p. 42
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When we start the Ninth Step, weve reached an exciting stage in our recovery. The damage done in our lives is what led many of us to seek help in the first place. Now, we have a chance to clean up that wreckage, amend our past, and reclaim our lives.
Weve spent a long time and much effort preparing for this step. When we came to NA, facing the debris of our past was probably the last thing we wanted to do. We started doing it privately with a personal inventory. Then, we opened our past up to the scrutiny of a select, trusted few: ourselves, our Higher Power, and one other person. We took a look at our shortcomings, the source of much of the chaos in our lives, and asked that all those defects of character be removed. Finally, we listed the amends needed to set our wrongs rightall of themand became willing to make them.
Now, we have the opportunity to make amendsto acquire freedom from the wreckage of our past. Everything weve done so far in NA has led us here. At this point in the process of our recovery, the Ninth Step is exactly what we want to do. With the Twelve Steps and the help of a Higher Power, we are clearing away the rubble that for so long has stood in the way of our progress; we are gaining the freedom to live.
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Just for today: I will take advantage of the opportunity to reclaim my life. I will experience freedom from the wreckage of my past.
In physical ways I became free from my past years ago.
But in emotional and spiritual ways I was still a prisoner.
By applying the 12 steps and living a life of recovery
I can see these chains falling away.
I am becoming free, whole, and growing in self esteem.
Recovery is a beautiful thing.
I became free from my pasts by trying to amend quite a few people .Some did not want to talk to me , others are dead , By working the Steps with my two sponsors I have had I learned to use them in my day to day life . I have reclaimed my life , and recovery is a wonderful thing .
