Topic: Do You Have A 12 Step Prayer You'd Like To Share With Us?

[aasharon90]

Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.

By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR, I havent had
a drink of alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that im truely grateful.

Is there a particular 12 Step Prayer
you'd like to share with others here
in SR......


I'll begin....

TO BE PRAYER

O Lord, I aint what I ought to be
And I aint what I want to be,
And I aint what Im going to be,
But O Lord, I thank You
That I aint what I used to be.

Amen.

Thanks for letting me share.

[aasharon90]

TODAY'S THOUGHT

I am but one, but I am one;
I can't do everything.
But I can do SOMETHING;
What I can do, I ought to do,
What I ought to do, God helping me,
I WILL DO.

[aasharon90]

Hi, Im Sharon and Im An Alcoholic.

By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found
it necessary to pick up a drink
of alcohol since 8-11-90. And for
that im truely grateful.


I have a 12 Step Prayer Book
that i use from time to time and
wanted to share some of those
special prayers with you.

If you have a Special Recovery
Prayer ud like to share here with
members of SR, please feel free
to do so.....

Prayers before during and after
the day can ease stress and help
us stay focused on whats important
in our daily recovery lives.



FOR ANOTHER DAY

Thank You, dear HP, for another day.
The chance to live in a decent way.
To feel again the joy of living,
And happiness that comes from giving.
Thank You for friends who can understand
And the peace that flows from Your loving
hand.
Help me wake to the morning sun
With the prayer, "Today Thy Will be
done."
For with Your help I will find the way.
Thank You again, dear HP, for another
day.


Thanks for letting me share.

[aasharon90]

PRAYER FOR THE HURRIED

Lord, slow me down.
Ease the pounding of my heart by quiet-
ing my mind. Steady my hurried pace.
Give me, in the confusion of my day, the
calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the
tension of my nerves and muscles. Help
me to know the magical, restoring power of
sleep.
Teach me to take minute vacation by
slowing down to look at a flower, a cloud.
to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a
few lines from a good book. Remind me
that the race is not always to the swift, that
there is more to life than increasing speed.
Let me look upward into the branches
of the towering oaks and know it grew
great and strong because it grew slowly
and well
Lord, slow me down. Inspire me to
send my roots deep into the soil of life's
enduring values that I may grow toward the
stars of my great destiny.

[aasharon90]

THIS I BELIEVE

Tomorrow is yet to be,
But should God grant me another day,
The Hope, Courage, and Strength
Through the working of the Twelve Steps
and Serenity Prayer,
I shall be suffenciently provide for to meet
my every need.

This I believe.

[aasharon90]

ENOUGH TO NEED

Dear God, never allow me to think that
i have knowledge enough to need no teaching
wisdom enough to need no correction,
talents enough to need no grace, goodness
enough to need no progress, humility
enough to need no repentance, devotion
enough to need no improvement, strength
suffiicent without Thy Spirit, lest, standing
still, I fall back forevermore.

[aasharon90]

THE GIFTS I ASK

These are the gifts I ask of Thee,
Spirit serene:
Strength for a daily task,
Courage to face the road,
Good cheer to help me
Bear the traveler's load;
And for the hours that come between,
And inward joy in all things heard and seen.

[aasharon90]

PEACE IN GOD'S WILL

My Higher Power, quicken my spirit
and fix my thoughts on Thy will, that I
may see what Thou would have done, and
contenplate its doing without self-con-
scienceness or inner excitement, without
haste and without delay, without fear of
other people's judgements or anxiety about
success, knowing only that it is Thy will
and therefore must be done quietly, faith-
fully and lovingly, for in Thy will alone
is my peace.

[aasharon90]

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RELAPSED

O God of all mercies and comfort, Who
helps us in time of need, we humbly ask
You to behold, visit, and relieve those who
have relapsed for who, our prayers are
desired. Look upon them with the eyes of
Your mercy; comfort them with a sense of
Your goodness; preserve them from the
temptations of their addiction; and give
them patience under their affliction. In
Your time, restore them to the program
and physical, mental, and spiritual health.
And help them, we pray, to listen, believe
and do Your will.