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
the 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 the message to others, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs.
