Steps??!? How Many?? 😮

 

 

"Work on Step Nine has freed me from fears about the past and given me more energy to devote to present-day living--THIS twenty-four hours."

~~"Willingness to Grow," Joliet, IL. July 1985, AA Grapevine

 

You don't have to "sweat it" in AA. The infamous "Steps" were painstakingly and experientially written in 1939. They have never been changed because they work.

The steps are never easy, but they don't have to be difficult at all. They are what you make them – a magical journey, a manageable task, a refreshing breeze, or an impossible hurdle. It's all in your perspective, to be completed in your time only.

 

 

 

The 12 Steps of AA

 

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.

  2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity (well-being).

  3. We made a decision to turn our will over and our lives over to the care of God [our Creator, our Father 😔].

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs (confessed our sins).

6. We acknowledged we were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. We made a direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.

10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, we promptly admitted to it.

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, 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.

 

Thoughts--followed through by actions.