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We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable. |
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Came to believe that
a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. |
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Made a decision to turn
our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. |
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Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves. |
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Admitted to God, to
ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. |
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Were entirely ready
to have God remove all these defects of character. |
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Humbly asked Him to
remove our shortcomings. |
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Made a list of all persons
we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. |
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Made direct amends to
such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others. |
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Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. |
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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. |
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Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message
to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. |
Al-Anon Service Center of Northern Virginia
