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 the 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.
