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. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is upon entering we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation.
utter defeat are we able to take our fi rst steps toward liber-ation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerless-ness fi nally turn out to be fi rm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. We know that little good can come to any alcoholic ... 7/6/2009 12:08:38 PM ...
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