THE 12 STEPS
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives
had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects
of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of those
steps we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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