Twelve Steps
| The Twelve Steps have helped us to know |
| and learn how to lean on our Creator. |
| Co - Labourers in Christ |
| Sharecroppers Ministries |
| We desire to share our strength, experience, and hope with you. Our experiences with the twelve steps has been through Overeaters Annonymous, Al - Anon, A. A., and Christian twelve step groups. |
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Have A Great Day
| Desire is the starting point of your achievment. Your intense anticipation itself will transform your possibilities into reality. Your desires are the precursors of the things which you are capable of doing or having. Your desires can in time externalize themselves into concrete fact. Weak desires will bring you weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you just care enough for any result, you will almost certainly attain it. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. Your reality forms around your commitment. |
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| The Twelve Steps |
| 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 understand Him. |
| 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. |
| 5. Admitted to God, ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
| 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all defects of character. |
| 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our short comings. |
| 8. Made a list of all persons we have harmed, and became willing to make amends to all of them. |
| 9.Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. |
| 10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. |
| 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our concious 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 a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. |
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| The Serenity Prayer |
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| God grant me the Serenity |
| To accept the things I cannot change, |
| Courage to change the things I can |
| And the wisdom to know the difference. |
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| Living one day at a time; |
| Enjoying one moment at a time; |
| Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. |
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| Taking, as He did, this sinful world; |
| As it is, not as I would have it. |
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| Trusting that He will make all things |
| Right if I surrender to His will; |
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| That I may be reasonably happy in this life, |
| And supremely happy with Him forever in the next. |
| ~ Reinhold Niebugr ~ |
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| Helpful Links: |
| http://www.al-anon-alateen.org/ |
| http://www.ncwsa.org/ |
| http://www.aarecovery.com/ |
| http://www.recovery.org/ |
