Wherever you are on your recovery journey, and however you define your Higher Power, you will find spiritual support in this special collection of prayers and inspirational readings. Book jacket.

Bill P. worked in the alcohol/drug addiction field as a historian, educator, and author, including four years with the AA Grapevine Magazine and nine years with Hazelden. Bill passed away in 2007.

Introduction Prayer is seeking answers and direction in life. Meditation is listening for answers from a Higher Power and developing the faith within us to accept these answers. Reflection is the study of ways to change the answers we get from prayer and meditation into action. This second volume of prayers and inspirational readings was written and compiled to assist all Twelve Step Fellowship members with their prayer life and spiritual progress. Those who are just beginning a life of recovery will find help by working the Eleventh Step. Those who have time in the Program will find a deepening of their spiritual life. Anyone who has trouble finding the "right words" to speak with his or her Higher Power may find exactly what he or she wants to say in one of these prayers. The suggestion in the Eleventh Step "sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him" asks us to improve our prayer and meditation life. May these prayers help you improve your spiritual progress. This book, as with volume 1 of The 12 Step Prayer Book, is a companion to the meditation book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations. Many members have learned, through times of quiet reflection, to work into their recovery life the answers their Higher Power has given them as a result of their active practice of prayer and meditation. 184 I've Found a Reason Dear God, as long as my life was preoccupied with my own problems, my own unwillingness and dark moods, I was critical, insensitive, rigid, and defiant. But when I honestly faced my defects and failures and the worst was known and surrendered to You, the whole nature of living changed. I am no longer the emotional center of all things and no longer take everything as personal to myself. I've found a reason for all the suffering through which I have passed. It is to be used in understanding and helping others. Out of darkness comes light. 185 Happy, Joyous, and Free I am sure You want me to be happy, joyous, and free. With Your help I will no longer believe that life has no meaning and is filled with sorrow. You, the Twelve Steps, and our Fellowship have shown me I made my own misery. You didn't do it. I pray I will avoid the deliberate manufacture of misery. But if trouble comes, I will cheerfully make it an opportunity to demonstrate Your wisdom and power. Adapted from material in Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition, page 133 186 Life Is a Gift Thank you, God. May I remember during periods of depression, The many times in my life when things do seem right, when I have those moments of clarity, When I feel there is hope, when the sun shines down on me and warms my face, when Your love warms my heart. I am reminded that life is a gift . . . this I pray. 187 Thanksgiving Prayer Native American Great and Eternal Mystery of Life, Creator of All Things, I give thanks for the beauty You put in every s

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