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LIVING THE 12
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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.
~~UnKnown~~
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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.
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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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