Steps to the Spirit
Steps to the spirit is about my search for, discovery of, and use of the Spirit to live my life according to the wishes and plans of God. I also call them gifts from God because I believe He has given us these tools to enable us to find a closer relationship with Him. I invite you to join me in this quest that is at times both difficult and extremely fulfilling. I will try to explain how and why it became necessary to surrender, thus enabling me to begin to live according to God's plan.I will post additional info on my blog: http://www.StepsToTheSpirit.com/blog To contact me, please use: [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 229
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Promises – (Part 5) Promise #3
This episode is about Promise number #3. Promise #3 is:
I will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
As you may know, I have written before about us becoming a “tabula rasa…
The Promises – (Part 4) Promise #2
This week we will explore promise number two of the 12 promises. The second promise is as follows:
I am going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
Wow, this sure seems like a huge p…
The Promises – (Part 3) Promise #1
In this episode I will be talking about what I consider the first of the promises from the first edition of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous. The promises start on page 83. Once again, I …
The Promises – (Part 2) Intro. Cont.
In this episode I would like to continue with a discussion about (what I call) the introduction to the promises. It is the paragraph before, or at the beginning of, the promises, depend…
The Promises – (Part 1) Introduction
I have been looking forward to these upcoming episodes on the Promises. As I have said many times, all of my references to the 12-step program text are from the first edition of Alcohol…
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 8) Reward
In this final episode I will talk about last two lines in Reinhold Niebuhr’ s Serenity Prayer. They are below:
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with Y…
The New “Old Man & the Sea
In this episode I am making a break in the Serenity Prayer series in order to talk about the events we’ve experienced in the last week. It just so happens that these events emerge perfe…
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 7) Surender
The next three lines in the Serenity Prayer, (I’ve noted them below), are, to me, the definition of step number three in the 12-step program.
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You w…
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 6) One Day at a Time
Now that we are in our new season, number 4, episode 1, I will begin by continuing with the Serenity Prayer, as written by Reinhold Niebur. I’ll begin after the prayer says, (in our new…
Happy New Year!
It’s a New Year tomorrow everyone and we all have a lot to celebrate and look forward to!. It all depends on our point of view!
Happy New Year to all all!
A Christmas Message – from my Spirit to you
I certainly would like to start this episode by wishing you all a Merry Christmas! As I thought of what kind of Christmas message I would like to give in this podcast I found myself in …
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 5) Wisdom
This episode on the serenity prayer is going to be about our wisdom to know the difference between what we can and cannot change.
In the original Serenity Prayer, it goes like this: and …
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 4) Courag
So, here we are, right after me describing to you my idea of prayer, we are asking God to give us courage. I believe, with all my heart, that we receive every single gift, strength, kno…
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 3) About Prayer
This episode is going to be a little bit of a diversion from our discussion of the actual Serenity Prayer. At the end of the last episode I went off track a bit. I discovered somewhere …
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 2) Serenity
This is part two of my series on the serenity prayer. In the last episode I wrote about the origins of the serenity prayer. Many folks think it is part of the 12-step program, but of co…
The Serenity Prayer – (Part 1) It’s Beginnings
This is part one of a series about the Serenity Prayer. The Serenity Prayer is very well known and popular in all of the variations of 12-step programs. It is not an official part of an…
Stepping Outside – My Life Outside
Now that we have reached the end of this series of episodes about in the 12 steps in our day-to-day lives, I would like to end with an episode about me and how I think of myself as a ci…
Stepping Outside – Step Twelve (Part 3)
in the first two episodes in which we examined step number 12, I spoke about what I consider to be the first two parts of the 12th step. This third, and final part of both the steps and…
Stepping Outside – Step Twelve (Part 2)
In the last episode we spoke about a spiritual experience versus a spiritual awakening as well as the change, really inconsequential, in the 12th step where it says as a result of these…
Stepping Outside – Step Twelve (Part 1)
Step number 12 is, perhaps, the step might think of the most is using in our day-to-day lives. My version of this step comes from the first edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. I h…