Gifts From God – Step 10 Perseverance (Part 1)

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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 before but it seems appropriate to me. Steps four through nine are usually referred to as the “action” steps. Of course, they are called that because they involve some kind of action. We are either writing or talking or otherwise doing something to help clear away our defects and shortcomings of the past.

Steps 10, 11, and 12 are referred to as the maintenance steps. While the action steps deal with our actions of the past, the maintenance steps 10 to deal with our actions of the present and those of the future. While I believe that living for today is very important in my spiritual learning and recovery, there are some instances that require me to plan in some ways for the future, or at least, my future behavior.

We are starting in this episode with step number 10 which, at first blush, seems like a rehash of step number four. Believe me, it is not. While the things that we wrote in step four can be helpful to jog our memories of past behavior and to help us recognize those behaviors if they reassert themselves, step 10 deals with the present. I will begin step 10 with the first part of the step, “I continue to take personal inventory”.