Sources of Jason’s Inspirations – 1; The 12 Steps
December 27, 2022 12:29 pm by
Chris Howey
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- 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.
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Comments
Wow, I have been a sober member of AA for 36 years, starting doing Aikido in Southern Illinois back in 2017-8 At the SIU campus Recreation Center. I have been living in Indianapolis for about 3 years, and decided to get back into Aikido, I was out of shape from working a seditary job ( substance counselor), got out of the field for 2 years, back in it now, but don’t want to get out of shape again.