Let go and let God. I need to trust God to help me get through every day whether it is a good day or a bad day.

God will make all things right if I will surrender to his will.

God can solve all my problems! I need to take all my problems to God first in prayer and meditation, then to others. God works through people.

God loves me just the way I am.

God help me keep an open mind about all things. A mind is like a parachute; it works better when it is open.

God plans results that I can’t even imagine. Trust God.

God I cannot do this on my own. Please help me.

Blame no-one but myself. Trust God, not evil. God’s mercy and grace, not my will. Gratefulness instead of ungratefulness. Be thankful instead of being selfish and self-centered.

Thank you God for all you do for me. Let me always put my complete trust in you for all things. Amen.

Matthew 6:33: Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness – the rest will be added to you.

God is good all the time. All the time, God is good.

God loves me as I am.

God shall supply all my needs.

God, please help me know that if I trust in you, everything will be all right.

God, please embrace my family and direct their lives.

God I hear you say: Live! Life’s a banquet and most poor souls are starving to death.

God sees you as you can become, but loves you just the way you are.

God please give me an attitude of gratitude. God please allow me to be happy with all my accomplishments.

Happiness is not the absence of joy. It is the presence of God.

H.A.L.T.: Don’t get too hungry, angry lonely, or tired.

AFFIRMATIONS Page 2

Be kind to yourself. Awareness without action is self abuse.

All is forgiven. Forgive yourself and be gentle with yourself.

You have a beautiful heart!

I am truly a woman of love, honor, and dignity.

I am enough. I have enough. Nothing tastes as good as abstinance feels. Surrendering means agreeing to cooperate.

If the only prayer you ever said was, Thank you”, that would be enough.

Happiness is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you have.

Humility is the perpetual quietness of heart.

Take away my difficulties. Remove from me the bondage of self.

READINGS ON THE TWELVE STEPS IN THE BIG BOOK

STEP 1 1st Half: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol……”
The Doctor’s Opinion page xxiii

STEP 1 2nd Half: “….that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism pages 30-43

STEP 2 “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Chapter 4: We Agnostics pages 44-57 & Spiritual Experience Appendix II, pg. 569
Chapter 2: There is a Solution pages 17-29

STEP 3 “Made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.”
Chapter 5: How It Works Pages 58-63

STEP 4 “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
Part 1 Resentments pages 64-67
Part 2 Fear pages 67-68
Part 3 Sex pages 68-71

STEP 5 “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another person the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Chapter 6: Into Action pages 72-75

STEP 6 “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
1st paragraph on page 76

STEP 7 “Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.”
2nd paragraph on page 76

STEP 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” **see directions for Step 9

STEP 9 “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” ** Reading for steps 8 & 9 on pages 76 – 84

STEP 10 “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
pages 84-85

STEP 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.”
pages 85-88

STEP 12 1st Half:
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics…”
Chapter 7: Working with Others pages 89-96

STEP 12 2nd Half: “….and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Beginning with “suppose” pages 96-103

The prayers contained in this handout are:

• SERENITY PRAYER
• THIRD STEP PRAYER
• SEVENTH STEP PRAYER
• TENTH STEP PRAYER
• ELEVENTH STEP PRAYER

» Set Aside Prayer (download word document)

“God, please set aside everything I think I know about myself, the twelve steps, this book, the meetings, my disease, and you, God, so I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things, please let me see the truth.”