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April 1956

Twelve Steps and the Older Member

Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <emphasis type="italic">as we understood Him,</emphasis> praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

IN the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience over the years, Step Eleven has a number of distinctions uniquely its own. For one thing, it's the longest. All of the Twelve Steps together contain, as I count them, exactly 200 words, an average of a little over sixteen per Step. Number Eleven contains thirty-two--almost twice the median length. The authors were sparing of words. Their generous use of them here could mean only one thing: they considered the Step of extraordinary importance.

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