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Day 6

Pardon

"Life is an adventure in forgivenss." Normal Cousins

In Step Four we did our inventory. And in Step Five, we shared the exacct nature of our wrongs with God, ourselves and another human being.

Having identified our defects and shortcomings in those two steps, we were then ready to take Steps Six and Seven--to be ready and willing to have our Higher Power help us to remove as many of them as possible. Although we were well aware that this process would be a lengthy one, we did our best to eliminate as many as we were capable of doing at the time.

In Steps Eight and Nine we identified the people to whom we owed amends and set about doing what we could to make reparations. We forgave them for any hurt they might have inflicted on us and hoped we would be forgiven for our actions toward them. We tried, to the best of our ability, to clear up financial obligations and to repair what business or personal havoc we had created. Where we were not able to reach each of them in person, we wrote or telephoned, whenever doing so would not bring them further harm.

Of equal importance was the necessity to forgive ourselves. Until we were free from self-recrimination and self-pity, our chance for continuing progress was greatly diminished.

We realize now that had it not been for the work we did in Steps Eight and Nine, we woudl not have been ready to embrace the challenge and opportunity that Step Eleven present to us.

Today's Step: With my Higher Power's help, I pray to forgive and be forgiven.

Step by Step. Muriel Zink