Third Step Prayer
God,
we offer ourselves to Thee to build with us and do with us and our relationships
as thou wilt. Relieve us of the bondage of self, that we may better do Thy will.
Take away our difficulties (including those in our relationships), that victory
over them may bear witness to those we would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and
Thy way of life. May we do Thy will always.
(Adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous
Big Book pg63)
Seventh
Step Prayer
Our
Creator, we are now willing that You should have all of us, good and bad (including
our relationships). We pray that You now remove from us every single defect of
character which stands in the way of our usefulness to You and our fellows. Heal,
and/or remove us from our defective relationships. Grant us strength as we go
out from here to do Your bidding. Amen
(Adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous
Big Bookpg.76)
Eleventh
Step Prayer
Lord,
make me a channel of thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love
- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where
there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring
truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair,
I may bring hope- that where there are shadows, I may bring light- that where
there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort
than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood — to love, than
to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. it is by forgiving that
one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to eternal Life. Amen
Step
One
The Fact
is that most of us , for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in
our relationships. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We
are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient
force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a day or week ago. We
are without defense against the first interaction with the misogynist.
(Adapted
from the Book of Alcoholics Anonymous pg. 24)
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