Step Eight: “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” “Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in
STEP SEVEN: “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now
Step 6: We became willing to ask God to help us remove our defects of character
STEP FIVE: Admitted to God, to ourselves a d to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. This is perhaps difficult, especially discussing our defects with another person.
STEP FOUR: Take a searching and fearless moral inventory. We must find out what we’ve got, what we need to get rid of, and what we need to acquire. There
“Here are the steps we took” by Clarence Snyder Working With Others It was Dr. Bob Smith who sponsored Clarence Snyder into this simple program. Clarence repeated this approach with
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Twelfth Step September 1945, Vol. 2 No. 5 “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Eleventh Step September 1945, Vol. 2 No. 4 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Tenth Step A.A. Grapevine, August 1945 Vol. 2 No. 3 “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” THE admission of a
A.A. Oldtimers…On the Ninth Step A.A. Grapevine, July 1945, Vol. 2 No. 2 “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or
