Step 1. Surrender
“We admitted we were powerless, that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Step 2. Came to Believe
“Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Step 3. Willing
“Made a decision to turn our lives and our will over to the care of God, as we understood Him.”
Step 4. Shine a Light
“Made a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourelves.”
Step 5. If You Really Knew Me
“Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Step 6. Boomerang Track
“Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
Step 7. Let Your Love Flow Through Me
“Humbly asked Him to remove our short-comings.”
Step 8. Turn My Life Around
“Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to all of them.”
Step 9. Sweeping
“Made direct amends to such persons wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”
Step 10. Progress Not Perfection
“Continued to take personal inventory, and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.”
Step 11. Living in God’s Time
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out.”
Step 12. Road Without End
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all of our affairs.”