Date:   11/25/2007 5:44:21 PM ( 17 y ago)
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The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society:

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 understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

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

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious 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 the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Newcomers are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.

They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered alcoholics describe their personal experiences in achieving sobriety, and to read A.A. literature describing and interpreting the A.A. program.

A.A. members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem drinkers themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact alcoholics.

At the same time, it will be pointed out that all available medical testimony indicates that alcoholism is a progressive illness, that it cannot be cured in the ordinary sense of the term, but that it can be arrested through total abstinence from alcohol in any form.

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Sit at a table with a pen and plenty of paper. Write about what a higher power means to you.

What you think this higher power is.

What does this higher power mean to you?

Are you willing to call upon this higher power?

Are you willing to let this higher power to become part of your life?

Are you willing to ask for faith in a higher power?

Are you willing to ask for help from your higher power?

Define this higher power.

Name this higher power.
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If you think as a human that you are a God, then you have failed miserably as a God. You had no power to control yourself and your life.

If you do not believe in God, should a God force you to worship Him? or should it be your choice?

You may see a creator as an artist creatibg a masterpiece on a canvass. But could it be a much greater creator that made this masterpiece called earth, that was made to furnish all your needs such as plants for food and medicines and meat to furnish your protein, your teeth are designed to eat both meat and vegetation. and the means to shelter yourself are furnished?

Whatever higher power (God) you choose, call upon it. Because you have tried things your way and it went wrong.

You can choose anything as your higher power, even if you choose to worship a tree, a person, an inanimate object or a supreme being. Make sure it is right for you. You have already relied on your own power.
 

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