Transcription of Twelve Steps - Step One - (pp. 21-24)
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21 step One We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. WHO cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an ob-session for destructive drinking that only an act of Provi-dence can remove it from other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-suffi ciency and all will to resist its demands.
For practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess ... 7/6/2009 12:08:38 PM ...
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