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He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
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And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and do
the will of our own Creator.
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On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator, and
said he was perfectly willing to do anything necessary.
8.
We have been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover the
obstacles in our path.
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Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
10.
It is nowhere evident, at
least in this life, that our
Creator expects us fully to eliminate our instinctual drives.
11.
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
12.
After consulting with his
wife and partner he came to the conclusion that
it was better to take those risks than to stand before his Creator guilty of such ruinous slander.
13.
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that
our Creator has entered into
our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.
14.
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
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So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator
show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
16.
My friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new relationship with my
Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my
problems.
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If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever
our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may
form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as
soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.
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