1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - 
                 that our lives had become unmanageable.

             2. Came to believe that a Power greater than    
                   ourselves could restore us to sanity.

             3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
                  over to the care of God as we understood Him. 

             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 out 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 a direct amends to such persons 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
                   as we understood Him
                 praying 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 
                alcoholics and to practice these principles in all
                 our affairs.