“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
This November at The Men’s Home, we’re turning our focus to Step 11—learning how to slow down, listen, and stay connected to something bigger than ourselves.
By this point in the journey, most of the chaos has been cleared. Step 11 isn’t about fixing the past or cleaning up damage. It’s about building something sustainable. That takes quiet effort—time spent in prayer, reflection, or just sitting still long enough to notice what’s really going on inside.
Residents are encouraged this month to explore what conscious contact means to them. For some, that looks like meditation or journaling. For others, it’s the rhythm of a daily walk or a quiet conversation with a sponsor. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s awareness.
Spiritual growth doesn’t have to be dramatic. It just has to be practiced. Step 11 gives us the space to keep doing that, one day at a time.
“Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way”.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 101
“Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever……a new life can be lived if we are willing to continue our awakening, through the practice of A.A.’s Twelve Steps.”
As Bill Sees It, p.8
