0,6The Twelve Steps
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0,6(1.  We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that
0,6.    our lives had become unmanageable.
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0,6(2.  Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
0,6.     could restore us to sanity.
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0,6(3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the
0,6      care of God as we understood Him.
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0,6(4.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
0,6      of ourselves.
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0,6(5.  Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
0,6      being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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0,6(6.  Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects
0,6      of character.
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0,6(7.  Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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0,6(8.  Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became
0,6      willing to make amends to them all.
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0,6(9.  Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
0,6      except when to do so would injure them  or others.
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0,6(10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were
0,6      wrong promptly admitted it.
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0,6(11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
0,6      conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
0,6      praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
0,6      the power to carry that out.
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0,6(12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these
0,6      steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
0,6      to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! 
I can't go through with it."
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Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to 
maintain anything like perfect adherence to these 
principles. 
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We are not saints. The point  is, that we are willing to grow
along spiritual lines.
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The principles we have set down are guides to progress.  We
claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
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Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, 
and our personal adventures before and after make clear
three pertinent ideas:
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(a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our
own lives.
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(b) That probably no human power could have relieved
our alcoholism.
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(c) That God could and would if He were sought.
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At this time we will pick two topics related to alcoholism 
or recovery from it to discuss in tonights meeting.
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If you have a topic you would like to hear some sharing on,
please let us know now.  Put it in text chat area now.
Thanks for being here with us!
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To share please raise your hand using a exclamation mark (!) 
and I will call on you in the order your hand went up.
Please refrain from cross-talking while another member
has the floor. Thanks!