LIVING THE 12 STEPS



STEP ONE

      I came into Alcoholics Anonymous because I was powerless over alcohol and I knew I couldn't live with my life completely unmanageable and I had no other place to go.

STEP TWO

      I was given the Gift Of Desperation and introduced to a Group Of Drunks who seemed to have Good Orderly Direction I came too out of that drunken fog That’s when I found a power greater than myself I knew He could help me recover from this disease and restore me to sanity

STEP THREE

      That’s when I came to believe that there was a God in my live and if only bye his grace   

I let him into my heart I could recover from the disease of Alcoholism so I turned my life and will over to His care, with complete abandon.

STEP FOUR

      Only by finding out what was right and wrong in my life, could I ever know peace and love, So a fearless inventory of my life was necessary to find out who I really was, I began to write everything down on paper, resentments, fears, sex, and other conducts. Separating what was done to me, from what I had done to others, the positive as well as the negative, trying to be honest about what I was doing, knowing I had to share this with someone else.

STEP FIVE

      God always knew who I was, but writing down my inventory, I wasn’t sure anymore, so I needed another human being to help me find out, this was a person that I had complete trust in, he showed me were my faults were, helped me to forgive others, as well as myself, guided me to the truth of my being, helping me to see, thru the eyes of others, with love and compassion for all in my past.

STEP SIX

      Being shown the defects of my past thru the eyes for others, and especially after letting another human being into my life, I was entirely ready for God to remove all my character defects

STEP SEVEN

      I humbly ask him to remove these character defects and short comings to help me recover from this disease of Alcohol-ism I Self Me

STEP EIGHT

      Making my list and, refining my list, with the help of that other human being, taking another good look, at my part, in the hurt I caused, I proceeded to take a better look at my inventory, to see who I needed to make amends to.

STEP NINE

      I then, with God’s help, and the help of my new friends, started to make direct amends to everyone,werever possible except when to do so would cause them or others harm. when making these amends I asked for forgiveness for the harms done.

STEP TEN

      I continued to write a daily inventory, and when I was wrong promptly admitted it, asking for forgiveness when it hurt others or myself

STEP ELEVEN

      I ask for His guidance every morning to help me do His will for today, and to make me a better person, I listen to Him thru the people He has put into my life, to keep me humble before Him

STEP TWELVE

      Having had a spiritual awaken as a direct result of living these Steps I try very hard to carry this message God can do for us what we could not do for ourselves and I try very hard to practice the principles of this GOD given fellowship in all my endeavors

      A.A.’s Twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in there nature, which, if practices as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.

      The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, through some ideas upon which success finally depended were the results of noting the behaviors and needs of the Fellowship itself.

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12 PRINCIPLES TO LIVE BY

Honesty

Step 1. We admitted that we were powerless - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Hope

Step 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Faith

Step 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we each understood him.

Courage

Step 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Integrity

Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Willingness

Step 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humility

Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Brotherly Love

Step 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Justice

Step 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Perseverance

Step 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Spirituality

Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we each understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Service

Step 12. Having had our spirit awaken as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other human beings and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

 



12 Step's

I took Step One, began to moan
I can't do this one on my own.

I took Step Two, began to pray
Restore me God, please now, today.

I took Step Three, gave up my will
Maybe God could love me still.

I took a Fourth,
I looked inside
Nothing more would I hide.

And on the Fifth,
I said aloud
I've done some wrong, and I'm not proud.

I took Step Six, and got prepared
To lose the defects,
I was scared.

Now I'm at Seven, take them away
My God, for this
I do pray.

And on Eight,
the list was long
Amends to make for all the wrongs.

I took Step Nine, put down my pride
Amends made,
I will not hide.

Step Ten I take, each day I pray
I make amends along the way.

And on Eleven
I pray to know
Each day His will, which way to go.

I take Step Twelve,
I'm like a bird
To others now,
I spread the word....

(Author anonymous)










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