Step work from the first 164 pages of the Big Book

1st 164 Steps

Readings from first164.blogspot.com, arranged by step for reading straight through — one step, all its readings, in one place.

Contents

  1. 0 Step ZeroThe admission that precedes the Steps: am I done?5
  2. 1 Step OneWe admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.160
  3. 2 Step TwoCame to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.57
  4. 3 Step ThreeMade a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.91
  5. 4 Step FourMade a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.79
  6. 5 Step FiveAdmitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.17
  7. 6 Step SixWere entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.45
  8. 7 Step SevenHumbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.62
  9. 8 Step EightMade a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.28
  10. 9 Step NineMade direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.35
  11. 10 Step TenContinued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.55
  12. 11 Step ElevenSought 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.92
  13. 12 Step TwelveHaving 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.126

Alongside the Steps

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