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
Gifts From God – Review (Part 2)
In this second part of the overview, I will continue with these gifts, giving my impression of how they help, both in the step program and in living our lives. I sometimes take these gi…
Gifts From God - Review (Part 1)
In this episode I’ll begin a review of these 12 gifts that accompany the 12 steps. I guess I should not describe them as accompanying the steps. These are gifts from God that have been …
Gifts From God – Step 12 Compassion (Part 5)
This episode is a continuation of the last part of step number 12, “practice these principles in all our affairs”. This phrase makes a lot of assumptions. It assumes that we have done t…
Gifts From God – Step 12 Compassion (Part 4)
In this episode, I would like to begin speaking about the last part of step number 12 and how we use this beautiful gift of compassion in order to share the gifts that we have received …
Gifts From God – Step 12 Compassion (Part 3)
In this episode I will talk about the part of step that is referred to as “carrying the message”. This is one way of describing the 12th step, however, it is so much more than that. Whe…
Gifts From God – Step 12 Compassion (Part 2)
In this second episode I will continue to talk about the gift of compassion and how it helps me to work these steps in the normal course of living life. What happened to me was a huge l…
Gifts From God – Step 12 Compassion (Part 1)
The best definition that I have found for the word “compassion” is the following: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings and misfortunes of others. However, in this definition …
Gifts From God – Step 11 Communication (Part 4)
Now, in this episode we will look at the last part of the 11th step, which is, “… the power to carry that out”. Oh my God! Don’t tell me we have to go back to the first three Grace step…
Gifts From God – Step 11 Communication (Part 3)
In this portion of the step, “… Praying only for knowledge of His will for us”, I guess it is a reminder to avoid allowing the decisions that I thought I should make, to enter the pictu…
Gifts From God – Step 11 Communication (Part 2)
In this second part of step 11, I will be speaking about improving our contact with God. Obviously, if I am going to improve something, it would imply that I already have something goin…
Gifts From God – Step 11 Communication (Part 1)
A quick reminder of my version of step eleven: “I seek through prayer and meditation to improve my contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry…
Gifts From God – Step 10 Perseverance (Part 4)
First , I would like to mention that from here on out I am going to try to get these podcasts out on Sundays. Hope that doesn’t inconvenience you, but my original thought was to publish…
Gifts From God – Step 10 Perseverance (Part 3)
This will be the final episode on the gift of perseverance. I would like to talk about the last part of step 10 which is, “… and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.” The inability…
Gifts From God – Step 10 Perseverance (Part 2)
So, when I left off my audio in the last episode, I was devising that, as usual, there is more about this step than meets the eye. It seems like every time I look at one of the steps ev…
Gifts From God – Step 10 Perseverance (Part 1)
With this episode we enter what are generally referred to as the maintenance steps. Just as a refresher, I have dubbed three steps as the “Grace” steps. I haven’t heard that expression …
Gifts From God – Step 9 Courage (Part 2)
In this episode I will talk about my old friend “ego”, and its buddies, at least in my case, “procrastination” and “rationalization”. They are always around, trying to mess with my head…
Gifts From God – Step 9 Courage (Part 1)
I never liked the very thought of having to do this step. It didn’t bother me in my early days of involvement in a 12-step program. That was because, in the early days, I only did the s…
Gifts From God – Step 8 Willingness (Part 2)
In this episode I want to talk about willingness and exactly how willing I have been in the past to, as they say in this step, “I became willing to make complete amends to them all”. I …
Gifts From God – Step 8 Willingness (Part 1)
In this episode I’ll continue with the action steps and specifically step number eight. If that I have associated with step number eight is the gift of willingness. There is no problem …
Gifts From God – Step 7 Humility (Part 2)
So, my friends, if last week was about humility, then this week is really going to be about humility plus. I am going to talk about the last part of the seventh step, the way it was ori…