The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 2)

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In this episode I’ll be speaking about the second see in this list of five C’s from the Oxford Group, which is:

Confession

of course, because we didn’t take the 12 steps directly from the Oxford Group, the order in which we do things sometimes different. The actions, however, are always the same as well as the intent.

We find the correlation to this act of confession in step number five of the 12 steps. Step number five says, “we admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrong.”. If this isn’t confession of the sword, well, I don’t know what is. This step comes after number four, our inventory, as well it should. Admitting these things to God is, well, not exactly looking Him in the face, (unless you are much more spiritually advanced than I am). Talking over this inventory with ourselves is certainly a helpful step, but one that I had to get help with because of my subjectivity, not to mention my rationalization skills.

So, ultimately, I got the best results by swallowing any pride I had speaking to another human being (in my case, a priest), and taking under advisement any observations that might have been offered. I believe that the old saying, “confession is good for the soul.”, Is a true one, at least it was for me. At first, doing the fifth step was a chore and an affront to what at this time I thought was my humility. As I progressed with my fifth step and spoke with that priest, I truly did feel some relief of pressure from my being. I believe that was the first confession that I ever did with any kind of complete honesty, and with the absence of the thought that being a chore. It was truly an act on my part be able to unload from my wreckage of the past.