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To: TexasCowboy

TC could you post the 12 steps? I would really like to know what they are and don't know how to find them.


61 posted on 12/16/2004 10:18:52 AM PST by SweetCaroline ( I promise God & myself that I will let go of this addiction that is destroying me!)
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To: SweetCaroline
  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 we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  11. 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.

  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.

63 posted on 12/16/2004 10:20:35 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: SweetCaroline

http://www.recovery.org/aa/bigbook/ww/

Check this out. The Steps are there, and much more.


64 posted on 12/16/2004 10:22:20 AM PST by Syberyenta ([My dad said: Free food has no calories])
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To: SweetCaroline; Lazamataz
Well, Laz beat me to it.

Thanks, Laz!

71 posted on 12/16/2004 10:29:15 AM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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