At church, they started a new class on handling addiction. Each of us has an addiction in one way or another, food, finances, morality issues, physical issues etc. I thought this to be a good class to attend to improve myself and to share what I learn on my Sunday blogs. Any misinformation or inaccurate information is the fault of the note taker.

• Think of the time where you have felt at peace in your life. Think of the circumstances that contributed to that piece.
• You can access an electronic copy of the book on LDS.org under the tab of family and individuals | Hope and Help | Addiction: (https://www.lds.org/topics/addiction?lang=eng)
• Though a person may be struggling with a specific addiction, it does not invalidate the other wondrous attributes of that individual.
• When you live the gospel of Jesus Christ it can lift your burdens.
• Addiction is when we were caught in a repeat pattern doing the same thing you don’t want to do.
• Addiction is devotion to an action in place of dedication to Christ.
• Addiction is where we repeat the same action and expecting different results.
• We become ready to address our addiction when wish to overcoming addiction is stronger than what we gain from this section.
• Addiction is something to fill a hole and on life, food baby example.
• Addiction is an effort for us to become non-against the challenges of life.
• Addiction can range from substance abuse, behavior and other types of abuse.
• The 12 steps of alcoholism recovery were created by two individuals named Bill and Bob in the 1940s.
• The process works if you work the process.
• The two founders, Bill and Bob realized that they feel they have to have a belief in Christ. Christ is a central component to the recovery process.
• Overcoming addiction involves a change of the heart.

The 12 steps of addiction are:

1. Admit that you of yourself, a powerless to overcome your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable.
2. Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health.
3. Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the eternal father and his son, Jesus Christ.
4. Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself
5. Admit to yourself to your heavenly father in the name of Jesus Christ to proper priesthood authority and to another person the exact nature of your wrongs.
6. Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses.
7. Humbly ask heavenly father to remove your shortcomings.
8. Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make restitution to them.
9. Whenever possible, make direct restitution to all persons you have harmed.
10. Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong promptly admit it.
11. Seek through prayer and meditation to know the Lord’s will and to have the power to carry it out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message with others and practice these principles in all you do.

• Mosiah 8:10
• Alma 5: 14
• The instructor showed a picture depicting Christ walking on water and Peter wanting to follow his example. Peter had the temporary faith to walk on the water to Christ. But then his faith failed him, he sunk. He had to be rescued by Christ. The painting was created is a Christian artist from Korea. The painting was from Peter’s point of view being underwater and looking up to Christ standing on the surface of the water. Christ is reaching down and smiling as he reaches for Peter. We discussed how the picture illustrated that, though Peter didn’t have a sustaining faith he did have faith enough to begin walking on water. Christ was accepting and happy for the amount of success Peter had at that time and is smiling at Peter success. Christ appreciated peters effort of acting under faith.

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