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November 1995

Letting the Spirit Join In

STEP 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God <emphasis type="underline">as we understood Him,</emphasis> praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Practicing our Eleventh Step develops my ability to do one thing at a time. At meetings, people are sometimes amused when I say that. One man told me, "That's ridiculous, everyone knows how to do one thing at a time." Later on, when I asked him how he meditated, he said, "I can't stop my mind from racing long enough to do that." That remark demonstrates the purpose of the practice.

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