Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the differance. Amen.

The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

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 these steps, we tried to    carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our    affairs.

From: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS The Story of How many Thousands of Men  and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism NEW AND REVISED EDITION (Second  Edition) ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING, INC. NEW YORK  CITY 1955 pp. 59-60