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We admitted we
were powerless over debting - that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
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Made a decision
to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
as we understood Him.
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Made a searching
and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him
to remove our shortcomings.
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Made a list of
all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
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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.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to
carry this message to compulsive debtors, and to practice these principles
in all our affairs. |