During my recent attending of an AA meeting one night I experienced an insight that I believe is worth sharing. While waiting around for the meeting to start, I noticed the Tweleve Steps posted on the walk. Even though I had seen them many times before, they did appear to me to be different. I seemed to be drawn, compeled to read them again. As I started read each step I started to become present to something extraordinary, if only to me. I started to get what I believe is the true intention or purpose or even the direction of the twelve steps. They have nothing to do with drugs and alcohol. They have nothing to do with making oneself better. They had nothing to do with fixing oneself. They have nothing to do with being a better person. What they have to do with, and the only thing that is of their concern, was being about the path to getting connected to God, to the spirit, or whatever you chose to call that which created us all, nature, and the world. The twelve steps were about what one needs to do, the path to be taken, that which needs to be let go of, that which needs to removed, the barriers and constraints to our connection, to have a spiritual awakening, to experience God. The awakening, I am more convinced now that ever, is to get and be who we really are.
