By the Book: Step 11

“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”

 VIEW: [17:12]

 READ:

• Big Book: Chapter Six (Into Action) Page 85-88. Download here
• Some Biblical Connections

 PRAY

Lord,
make me a channel of Thy peace
that where there is hatred, I may bring love
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony
that where there is error, I may bring truth
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith
that where there is despair, I may bring hope
that where there are shadows, I may bring light
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in the giving that we receive;
it is in the pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
[Prayer of St. Francis]