12 Steps 12 Promises
The Steps and Twelve Promises
Source.....First Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless-that our lives had become unmanageable
Promise: We are going to know a new freedom and new happiness
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Promise: We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
3. Made a decisonto turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him.
Promise: We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.
Promise: No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Promise: That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects in character.
Promise: We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our short comings
Promise: Self seekin will slip away.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Promise: Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
9. Made direct amends wherever possible, except when to do so uld injure them or others.
Promise: Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Promise: We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us
11. Sought through prayer and meditaion to improve our conscious contact with God as we undestand HIm, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Promise: We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry the message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Promise: Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us...sometimes quickly, sometimes sowly. They will always materialize if we work for them
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