An important part of the process of recovery is cleaning up. To get clean is how we start the road to recovery. We always have to begin by cleaning up physically. We stop drinking, using, raging, eating sugar… whatever it is that we are doing that is muddying up the waters. We have to stop in order to purify our being. In 12 step programs we try to then begin working the steps as soon as possible. The real purification comes when we take steps 4-7. In step 4 we do a complete moral inventory. If I am going to clean it out I have to bring it up in order to get rid of it. Once I have dragged the crap out of the closet, so to speak, I then have to shed some light on it. The process of purification requires shining a light on the darkness within. We do that by letting ourselves, our Higher Power, and an impartial observer in on our nasty secrets. We tell everything, leaving out nothing, and in the light of day these boogie men aren’t so terrifying after all. That is step 5. In step 6 we become willing to allow our Higher Power to purify us. Purification means everything that is holding us back from our divinity. Once we are willing to let it all go, we ask our Higher Power to take it from us, to purify us, to make us whole. Why do we bother? Because heaven and hell are not necessarily places that you go when you die; they are right here, right now, and the choice is yours.
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