AA meetings and the 12 Steps

Great meeting tonight. God saved me and sent me to AA to get sober and stay sober. My friends in AA are open and real. They talk about their problems. AA is not just about drinking, it's about thinking. Its about life! The twelve steps are my road to recovery. I recommend them as a road map to recovery from whatever you are struggling with. Since you may not struggling with alcohol I substituted the word "sin" for "alcohol" and "Jesus Christ" for “a Power greater than ourselves” because Jesus Christ is my Lord. Below are the twelve steps we use in recovery. 1. We admitted we were powerless over sin – that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that Jesus Christ could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to sinners, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. These are the steps I took and I continue to work the maintenance steps (steps 10-12). I feel so much better today because Jesus Christ set me free.