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                                     The 12 Steps.

 

 

                                      STEP ONE

 

 

 

             We admitted we were powerless over alcohol

                 that our lives had become unmanageable.

 

 

                                      STEP TWO

 

 

 

                Came to believe that a power greater than

                         our-could restore us to sanity.

 

 

                                     STEP THREE

 

 

 

                Made a decision to turn our will over to the

                       care of god as we understand him.

 

 

                                     STEP FOUR

 

 

 

                     Made a searching and fearless moral

                              inventory of ourselves.

 

 

                                      STEP FIVE

 

 

 

          Admitted to god to ourselves and to another human

                   being the  exact nature of our wrong's

 

 

                                      STEP SIX

 

 

 

                Were entirely ready to  have god remove

                        all there defects of character.

 

                                                  

                                   STEP SEVEN

                                        

 

 

             Humbly ask him to remove our short commings.

 

                                            

                                   STEP EIGHT

 

 

 

              Made a list of all persons we have harmed and

               become willing to make amends to them all.

 

                                     

                                   STEP NINE

 

 

 

         Made a direct ammends to such people where ever

              possible except when to do so would injure

                                them or others.

 

                                    STEP TEN

 

 

            Continued to take personal inventory and when

                   we were wrong promptly admitted it.

 

                                 STEP ELEVEN

 

 

 

         Sought through prayer and meditation to improve

          our consious contact with god as we understand

          him praying only for knowlege of his will for us

                     and the power to carry that out.

 

 

                                 STEP TWELVE

 

 

 

         Having had a spiritual awakenings as the result of

         these steps we tried to carry this message to ot-

         hers and to practice these to others and to pract

                 ice these principles in all our affairs.