7th Step Prayer

My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good & bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you & my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do Your bidding.

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The Principles of the 12 Step Program

Bill W. considered each step to be a spiritual principle in and of itself, however, particularly in the 12 & 12, he outlined the spiritual principles behind each step. The most important of these is Humility.

Core Spiritual Principles of the 12 Step Program: Willingness, Open-mindedness, Honesty

AA’s Code:  Love and Tolerance of Others

1- We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable. Acceptance, Admission of Defeat, Open-mindedness, Willingness, Humility

2- Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.  Open-mindedness, Humility, Acceptance

3- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. Willingness, Humility

4- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.  Honesty Fearlessness Willingness Humility

5- Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Humility, Willingness, Honesty, Humility, Forgiveness, Open-mindedness, Acceptance, Prudence, Serenity

6- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Acceptance, Humility

7- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Humility, Willingness, Open-mindedness            

8- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.             Forgiveness, Calmness, Brotherhood, Honesty, Thoroughness, Responsibility, Humility Acceptance Tolerance Objective

9- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Good Judgment, Courage, Humility, Sincerity, Forthright, Generous, Willingness, 

10- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.                     Discipline, Acceptance, Humility, Patience, Persistence, Self-restraint, Honesty, Willingness, Forgiveness, Fair-minded, Tolerance, Love, Kindness,

11- Sought through 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.  Humility, Love, Forgiveness, Harmony, Truth, Faith, Hope, Compassion, Understanding, Self-forgetting, Willingness, Strength, Wisdom, Serenity,

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. Gratitude, Acceptance, Love, Honesty, Tolerance, Unselfishness, Strength, Serenity, Giving, Fortitude, Faith, Brotherhood, Service, Understanding, Courage, Wisdom, Humility,

What is the Table Mate

If you were around the mid-west and the east coast in during the early 12 steps time you might have used the “The Detroit Pamphlet”. It is a great introduction to the Step program. *access to the complete pamphlet is available free from the website at the bottom of the page

THE TABLE MATE:

Preface
The following pages contain the basic material for the discussion meetings for alcoholics only. These meetings are held for the purpose of acquainting both old and new members with the twelve steps on which our program is based. So that all twelve steps may be covered in a minimum of time they are divided into four classifications and one evening each week will be devoted to each of the four subdivisions.
Thus, in one month, a new man can get the basis of our twelve suggested steps.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – -that our lives had become unmanageable.

These steps are divided as follows:
Discussion No. 1 The Admission Step No. 1.
Discussion No. 2 The Spiritual Phase Steps 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11.
Discussion No. 3 The Inventory and Restitution Steps No. 4, 8, 9 and 10.
Discussion No. 4 The Active Work which is Step No. 12.

*This edition prepared January 2002 by Glenn F. Chesnut, History Department,
Indiana University South Bend. It may be downloaded from the Hindsfoot Foundation
website, http://hindsfoot.org, from the section on A.A. Historical Materials.

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Step 7

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.