Twelve Steps for Alcholics Anonymous
 
 Includes comments and scriptures.  Use if your Higher Power
   is God and you believe in Jesus and the Bible.  

 1. We ADMITTED we were powerless over <   >, that our
    lives had become unmanageable.  (Hit bottom).  
    (Just left DENIAL)  (first step toward freedom).
    Nobody really cares to admit defeat.
    
    Keywords: God is more powerful than us.  Humility/
    humble.
    
    Scriptures:  "you shall know the truth, and the
    truth shall set you free".
    "all have sinned".  Move toward repentance.
 
 2. BELIEVE that God is greater than ourselves and can
    restore us to sanity (peace).  We no longer have to
    "go through life on our own strength and wisdom".
    Move away from indifference to "take a stand, make
    a committment".  Move away from prejudice to love
    everyone.  Move away from negative to positive
    thinking.  Move away from self-righteousness and replace
    with God's righteousness.
  
    Keywords: Believe, Open mind, Faith, review our 
    relationship to God.
 
 3. DECIDED to turn our will and lives over to the care 
    of God.  Action.  Letting God work through us.
    Trying to know God's will.  Depending on God instead 
    of ourselves.

    Keywords:  Will, Depend.
 
 4. EXAMINE ourselves.  A lifetype practice.
 
 5. ADMITTED to God, ourselves and to another person the
    exact nature of our wrongs/shortcomings/sins.
    Will receive forgiveness and forgive others.
    Will bring us closer to God.
 
 6. Humbly ask God to remove defects of character.
    A lifetime job.
 
 7. Humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings/sins.

    Keywords: strength from weaknesses.
 
 8. List persons we have harmed, and be willing to
    make amends to them all.  Avoid judgments, try to
    forgive.

    Keywords:  our relationship with others, Love others.
 
 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
    except when to do so would injure them or others.
    Be responsible.

 10. Continued personal inventory and admitted when we
     were wrong.
 
 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
     relationship with God, praying for knowledge of His
     will for us and power to carry that out.
 
 12. Having gotten closer to God through the above steps,
     we try to carry this message to <others in need or
     others addicted> and to practice these principles in
     all our affairs.