You know, Barbzee... posting the AA Twelve Steps is not a bad idea.. They are rather beautiful in their simplicity..and anyone who lives by them cannot help but be a better person!!
I post uplifting things... One...to keep the Forum active and growing. Two... Nothing is wrong with practicing Positive, Happy Living!! :-)
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover form alcoholism.
Their Twelves Steps are simple and healing, most of all they have worked for millions, ...and MANY organizations follow AA's Twelve Steps...Gamblers Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and others. Many years ago we had an AA member come to our Weight Watchers Meeting and gave his testimony and spoke on the Twelve Steps..
I think none among us is without needing help at times! Here are the Twelve Steps.
THE TWELVE STEPS
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought though 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.
12. 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.
-Reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
Ah..now that I've got that done...let me get outside and begin the engineering of the paving and full hookups for that RVA Revival!! Only first class digs for MY followers..don't ya know? :-)
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