- We admit our need for God's gift of salvation, that we are
powerless over certain areas of our lives and that our lives are at times sinful and
unmanageable.
- We come to believe through the Holy Spirit that a power who
came in the person of Jesus Christ and who is greater than ourselves can transform our
weaknesses into strengths.
- We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of Christ as we understand Him--hoping to understand Him more fully.
- We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of
ourselves--both our strengths and our weaknesses.
- We admit to Christ, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of our sins.
- We become entirely ready to have Christ heal all of these
defects of character that prevent us from having a more spiritual lifestyle.
- We humbly ask Christ to transform all of our shortcomings.
- We make a list of all persons we have harmed and become
willing to make amends to them all.
- We make direct amends to such persons whenever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
- We continue to take a personal inventory and when we are
wrong, promptly admit it, and when we are right, thank God for His guidance.
- We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with Christ as we understand Him, praying for knowledge of His will for
us and the power to carry that out.
- Having experienced a new sense of spirituality as a result
of these steps and realizing that this is a gift of God's grace, we are willing to share
the message of His love and forgiveness with others and to practice these principles
for-spiritual living in all our affairs.
*Adapted from the 12-Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous
Copyright Dr. Vernon J. Bittner
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference.
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