An inspiring collection of meditations, prayers, and insights designed to facilitate the weekly practice of the 11th step, heightening our conscious contact with God as we understand him. Each year, hundreds of men and women cross the threshold of the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Many of them attend the "Hour of Power," a weekly Sunday morning meeting focused on heightening one's spiritual awareness and growth by focusing on the Eleventh Step of Alcoholics Anonymous: "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." This special book, designed for weekly study, offers a prayer, a meditation, and related insights from the discussions that emerged during the "Hour of Power." Sought Through Prayer and Meditation brings the insights of the collective consciousness of the Wolfe Street groups to recovering people everywhere. This book reminds us that if we are vigilant in our spiritual pursuit, we may well achieve what is promised: "a glimpse of that ultimate reality which is God's kingdom." (Geno W.) "A powerful addition to recovery literature, Sought Through Prayer and Meditation shows us how spirituality can be earned, found, and practiced. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the members of the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock for sharing this marvelous guide with us." --Earnie Larsen, author of Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction "I thank God for Geno and the others at Wolfe Street over the years who have given so freely of their time and expertise and made the wisdom captured in this book possible." --Charlie P. Cofounder of the Wolfe Street Center, Geno W. (1927-2000) instituted the Wolfe Street Center Eleventh Step meetings and documented the best of what came out of those discussions for this book. William G. Borchert wrote the screenplay for the 2010 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of his book, The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough. Introduction In our daily practice of prayer and meditation, how often have we been moved by a particular thought or postulate, something that touched us deeply? In that special moment, our soul was swayed, our spiritual aura and insight uplifted, only to have that marvelous experience drift from our consciousness a short time later and be gone completely before day's end. Perhaps if that same thought or concept were there in our next day's meditation and the day after that, we would more likely be able to savor its insight in even greater depth. This could then provide the opportunity for such an experience to become a true wellspring for our spiritual condition, a sturdy linchpin in our recovery from alcoholism. This special book, based on the chronicles from the Hour of Power Eleventh Step meditation meetings originated and conducted by Geno W., cofounder of the well-known Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, is designed to provide just such an opportunity. It offers spiritual thoughts and postulates that can be meditated on for an entire week, thus giving the reader the occasion to probe deeply into the awesome power of the Eleventh Step of Alcoholics Anonymous and other Twelve Step programs. It is, in a sense, patterned after the Twelve Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous itself, in which constant repetition of its concepts and principles builds a strong foundation for sobriety. So too can the thoughtful repetition of specific spiritual concepts reinforce that foundation and enable one to build a strong spiritual life based on a "conscious contact with God as we understood Him"--the only certain solution to the disease of alcoholism. The purpose of this book, then, is to enhance our practice of the Eleventh Step in our daily prayers and meditation. If we are vigilant in that pursuit, the program of AA promises we will soon see a glimpse of that ultimate reality, which is the kingdom of God. Wolfe Street and the Hour of Power Each year, more than a hundred thousand men and women cross the threshold of the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, hoping to find some semblance of peace and serenity in their troubled worlds. They have this hope of a daily reprieve thanks to three recovered alcoholics who dedicated much of their lives to helping others. It was in the fall of 1982 when Geno W., Joe McQuanny, and Bert Jones, three local businessmen who have since passed on, saw the need for a place that could provide frequent support meetings for those seeking recovery from alcoholism through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. They found a former nurses' residence at 1210 Wolfe Street and, with the assistance of volunteers, turned the two-story building into a comfortable facility where today AA groups hold more than forty meetings each week and where a variety of special activities and special events support and celebrate recovery. As the Center grew as a focal point of sob