Steps – Fr K. – Humorous Walk thru The 12 – 2005
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Fr. Larry K. walks through the Steps on a New Y.’s Eve in Pauls V., tracing his arc from a lonely Polish kid who felt ugly and isolated to a man who used alcohol and drugs as a bridge to an island of one.
He confesses to stealing the church poor fund, blackouts, and sexual entanglements before hitting bottom. Working the Steps with a sponsor becomes his anchor. He reframes the Fourth and Fifth S. not as moral accounting but as peeling back layers of mother-hatred and self-loathing
. The Sixth and Seventh S. arrive as surrender: defects aren’t traits to fix, but gaps to fill with love.
He quits smoking cold after a Higher Power speaks, and learns amends require real money, not just apologies. The daily inventory becomes “hemorrhoid surgery”—painful but necessary. He closes with the Magi story: knowledge of the Steps isn’t the cure; walking them is. The stable becomes a temple.
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