The 12 Steps of A.
A.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that
our lives
had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care
of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these
defects of
character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing
to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except
when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when
were
wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve
our
conscious contact with God, as we understood Him,
praying
for knowledge of His will for us and the power to
carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps,
we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to
practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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