Matrika - The wind whispered your name to me...
 
 
 Ma> okay, maybe that can be a fun project for the group - who can come up 
 Ma> with a rhyming, rap-like version of the 12 steps?
 Ma> .
 Ma> I am truly evil - GRIN!
 
 Only if you *really* do start a rap version...
 Ma> Also this month our topic is probably step 11 and I'm glad.  Prayer
 Ma> and meditation are what keeps me alive.   (Maybe that's because the 
 Ma> meditation I do uses the breathe for a focal point?)  This to me is 
 Ma> kind of odd seeing that when I first came around AA I was allergic to 
 Ma> these concepts - having been really badly burnt religiously speaking, 
 Ma> in the past.  Meditation came first to me because the idea of a more 
 Ma> personalized Higher Power was alien to me.  I was sober four years 
 Ma> before I tried prayer and I still struggle with it.  Today my prayer
 Ma> is often "show me HOW to pray".  
 Ma> .
 Ma> The hardest part of step 11 for me is the part that says we ask only 
 Ma> for knowledge of the Higher Power's will for us and the power to carry
 Ma> it out.  I still want to write my letter to Santa and ask for what I 
 Ma> want.   Of course it doesn't always happen that way and then I pout.
 Ma> Fortunately the Higher Power really does tolerate me in all phases on 
 Ma> this process. (GRIN)  But it is easier ON ME when I go along with what
 Ma> the Higher Power is doing rather than expect the cosmos to change to 
 Ma> meet my demands.
 We each handle things the best way we can..things that have happened to
 us in the past affect our present..but..I do feel that the HP has reasons
 for the things that happen..and, as you say, things become easier when 
 we let Hir run the show.....IMO anyway..
 Light, Love and Laughter
 Marie - Starwitch
... A simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
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