Having had a spiritual awakening as "THE" result of these steps....

[toad]

I hear many people read Step Twelve wrong. Sometimes I hear "Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps".........The word "the" in speech is called a definitive article, meaning that the action is pointed directly at something...........the steps.

share this with me.............toad




"A 'spiritual experience' to me meant attending meetings, seeing a group of people, all there for the purpose of helping each other; hearing the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions read at a meeting, and hearing the Lord's Prayer, which in an AA meeting has such great meaning -- 'Thy will be done, not mine.'

A spiritual awakening soon came to mean trying each day to be a little more thoughtful, more considerate, a little more courteous to those with whom I came in contact."


Big Book p. 381