| Fifth Step Prayer
Higher Power,
my inventory has
shown me who I am,
yet I ask for Your help
in admitting my wrongs
to another person and to You.
Assure me,
and be with me,
in this Step,
for without this Step
I cannot progress
in my recovery.
With Your help,
I can do this,
and I will do it.
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NOTE: All Big Book quotes are from the First Edition of the Big Book History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou |