12 Steps To Reconciliation iampeacemaker, July 15, 2023August 9, 2023 Admitting you are addicted to something is the first step to solving the problem. It is more than simply admitting an addiction to alcohol, drugs, nicotine, eating, or gambling. Someone can be addicted to money, power, anger, revenge, or even unforgiveness… when addiction becomes a problem to other people involved… it may be time to follow the 12 steps. An addiction is a chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, motivation, and memory. It’s about the way your body craves a substance or behavior, especially if it causes a compulsive or obsessive pursuit of “reward” and lack of concern over consequences. Someone experiencing an addiction will: be unable to stay away from the substance or stop the addictive behavior display a lack of self-control have an increased desire for the substance or behavior dismiss how their behavior may be causing problems lack an emotional response What Is Addiction? Definition, Signs, Treatment, and More (healthline.com) In my previous posts, I’ve discussed sins, repentance, and forgiveness in regard to the processes of reconciliation between the Indigenous people, Canada, and the Vatican. I believe that forgiveness can be offered to the Vatican by the Indigenous peoples of these colonialized lands. But first, the elders who remember the sins committed against them must receive apologies and recognize them as sincere. These elders have had their lives uprooted, destruction of their family supports, forced through religious training by hypocritical teachers, and lost many loved ones in a traumatic setting. I’ve heard people express disappointment against the sincerity of the Vatican’s apology. I believe the money and power addictions of the Roman Empire carried on through to the Roman Catholic Church. This can be rectified by a truly repentant Vatican. I don’t believe Catholics are evil people. Most members of that church try hard to be good people. Including IN the Vatican. But due to the severity of the crimes in question, motions must be made BY the Vatican to seek reconciliation from where they stand on this issue. True repentance and seeking forgiveness. Doing what’s right. This means that the Vatican must help the Canadian government to recompense damages to the families of these scarred and treasured People, who have proven there was nothing wrong with their belief systems in the first place before Catholicism was forced on them. These humans were here first, they even helped the colonists, much to their ensuing destruction. PEOPLE, if you receive apologies, please consider forgiveness. I know it’s hard. Much of what was lost can never be restored, although I see you making great efforts. Keep it up. But holding on to anger is as much an addiction as anything else, that can cause unnecessary hatred, divisions, and further damage to your families and nations here on Turtle Island, or North America, whatever you choose to call it. Acceptance and peace can be beneficial to all. Seek help to reconcile and forgive from your Creator as you know Him, Mother Earth, or whoever helps your inner self to heal. People can start to conquer once they admit their problems to themselves. Addictions like money, power, or in return, even righteous anger can be an addiction. Seek forgiveness, and try to forgive in return if you are on the receiving end. Seek forgiveness, for the sake of this planet, healing, and freedom. 1. We admitted we were powerless over addiction — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. 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. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. The Twelve Steps | Alcoholics Anonymous (aa.org) If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why would anyone else follow you? Be the example you need. “Peace Maker” is my Indigenous Spirit name, my other Spirit name is Elainia, which means, “Land of Light”. I am a Canadian, a friend of God, an empathic woman with a timeless soul, driven to create more peaceful lives for those I meet through patience and understanding. It feels really good to say, “I AM Peace Making”. I encourage you to claim that. Positive affirmations are good for the soul. Then together we have the faith to move mountains! Share on FacebookTweetFollow us Peace Making 12 stepsCanadaforgivenessreconciliationrepentancevatican
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