the twelve steps

1. We admit we are powerless over our dependencies and that our lives have become unmanageable.
   
2. We come to believe that God can restore us to sanity.
   
3. We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.
   
4. We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
   
5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
   
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
   
7. We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
   
8. We make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
   
9. We make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
   
10. We continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong promptly admit it.
    
11. We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as revealed through the person of Jesus Christ, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
    
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ, we try to carry this message to others and to practice these Biblical principles in all our affairs.