Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I can not change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference.

Third Step Prayer

God, I offer myself to Thee - to build
with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.

Relieve me of the bondage of self,
that I may better do Thy will.

Take away my difficulties, that victory
over them may bear witness to those
I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love,
and Thy Way of Life.

May I do Thy will always!

Seventh Step Prayer

My Creator, I am now willing that you
should have all of me, good and bad.

I pray that you now remove from me
every single defect of character which
stands in the way of my usefulness to
you and my fellows.

Grant me strength, as I go out from
here, to do your bidding.

Amen.

Eleventh Step Prayer

Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light.
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather
to comfort, than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self forgetting, that one finds.
It is by forgiving, that one is forgiven.
It is by dying, that one awakens to Eternal Life.

Amen.

The "Promises"

 From pages 83-84 in "The Big Book"


If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not! They are being fulfilled among us - Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

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