The Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

The Twelve Steps

Step One
We admitted we were helpless over the problem —
that our lives have become unmanageable.

Step Two
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.

Step Three
We made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God, as we understood God.

Step Four
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step Five
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being,
the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step Six
We were entirely ready to have God remove those defects of character.

Step Seven
We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Step Eight
We made a list of all persons we have harmed, and became
willing to make amends to all of them.

Step Nine
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.

Step Ten
We continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step Eleven
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of
God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.

Step Twelve
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to other addicts,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.