…Our SA fellowship here has been a great help to my sexual sobriety. In our last meeting, we talked on the Fourth Step. I have found that by working the Steps, I am continuing to grow spiritually. As well as constantly being aware of my addiction.

The first half-hour of our meetings we ask if anyone has had a problem come up in the past week that we may be able to help through our own experience, strength, and hope. And it all leads into the Fourth Step. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

I have found two positive ways to take a fearless moral inventory of myself 1) By writing it down on paper, and 2) By talking to someone that has already worked the same Step.

I haven’t been able to work this Step until incarceration. I was always afraid to see, or let others see, just how low I really was. But once I started taking a moral inventory and sharing my character defects with others, I found it easier to face myself.

Then I could start working on the obsession of “lust” that was eating at me. Only by turning it first over to God.

I have found myself to be more of a man, and putting away childish ways. By focusing on “me” the less and focusing on other people’s problems. Cleaning up my own house, then sharing with others how this Step has worked for me.

This Step Four has hurt, brought pain, etc. Yet rewarding to see the changes God has made in my life by working these Steps truthfully and fearlessly. I am a new man, old things have passed away.

I had people come up to me after our meeting and tell me that they felt different in this meeting (to the better).

I believe as one takes a searching look at himself, and shares to others, it releases part of the shame, guilt, and fear.

And the Lord is healing us spiritually, as well as emotionally.…