Suggested Steps of the Spiritual Life (adapted from AA)

1. I admitted my life was unmanageable or/and I was out of control or/and I was not happy or/and I was going nowhere or/and I was missing something important or/and _________and I was powerless over it.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.

5. Admitted to God, to myself and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.

6. Was entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove my shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons I 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 I was wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, as I understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I carried this message to others by practicing these principle in all my affairs. I walk the talk.