II. Came to Believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
III. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of GOD, as we understood HIM.
IV. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
V. Admitted to GOD, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
VI. Were entirely ready to have GOD remove all these defects of character.
VII. Humbly asked HIM to remove our shortcomings.
VIII. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
IX. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
X. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
XI. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with GOD, as we understood HIM, praying only for the knowledge of HIS Will for us and the Power to carry that out.
XII. Having had a spiritual awakening, we carry GOD's message of Love to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Psalm 103: 1-5
is compassionate
and gracious, slow to anger,
abounding in Love."
Psalm 103:8