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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0207291.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TWELVE STEP PROGRAM PRAYER LOVE COMMUNAL INTEGRITY+020729 %GROUP RESPONSIBILITY POWER HEALTH HEALING CIVILITY+020729 %ACCEPT CHANGE IMPOSSIBLE BOUNDS BOUNDARIES LINES+020729 %TACIT IMPLICIT TOGETHER COOPERATION CONTENTION SIN+020729 %INDIVIDUAL ISOLATED ALIENATED SALVATION REDEMPTION 020729 The often quoted/used prayer of Twelve Step Groups asks A Higher Power for the discernment and ability to recognize the difference between what we can change, and what we cannot change; to be able to accept what we cannot change and to work cooperatively/creatively within those bounds. In the prayer the often tacit assumption is that the process is that of an individual person; but the context of the Twelve Step Groups is clearly that of a mutually supportive community. The tacit implication of the above is that it is important for Twelve Step Groups to work TOGETHER in COOPERATIVE WAYS to recognize the difference between what we can change, and what we cannot change; and to be able to ACCEPT WHAT WE CANNOT CHANGE WITHIN EACH OTHER; e.g., cultural heritage, nationality, racial origin, genetic-identify, etc. Once there is such mutual acceptance it is possible for the group as a whole to work cooperatively and creatively within the existing/accepted bounds. The above considerations are relevant to us AS COMMUNITIES dealing with our human tendencies to: 1. Try to dominate and be in control of what we cannot dominate and/or control. 2. Try to prevent others from being dominant and/or in control --- of what they should not try to dominate and/or control 3. Believe the myth that there can be redemptive violence which is worthy of our respect, honor & support. 4. Believe that we are "better" than others are. 5. Defend the assumptions, attitudes, habits and prejudiced/thoughtless traditions of our parents and of our uneducated ancestors. 6. Believe that our particular form of integrity is the only possible/respectable form of integrity, in spite of how many different kinds of well integrated creatures God has created throughout the immensity of the time-space continuum of the whole cosmos/universe with its billions of galaxies when each galaxy contains billions of stars/suns. 7. Believe and act as if our own individualistic form of integrity is far more important than the integrity of the community which brought us into being with our individualistic kind of integrity. 8. Believe and act as if our own gang's form of integrity is superior to and/or more important than the integrity of the community which brought our gang into being as we now are. 9. Act as if "The Domination System" hypothesis is absurd, without evidence, and prone to engender bias, prejudice and faulty thinking. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================