THE 12 STEPS

STEP ONE

Step: I admit I am powerless over my ego, and my life up until this point has been managed and run by it, but I am ready to find truth despite not knowing it personally yet.

Prayer: I surrender over my ego to Thee oh Lord, in its entirety, and all attachments I have to the belief that I am my mind. Thank you for how this decision will impact my life positively from this point forward.

STEP TWO

Step: I have come to believe that a power greater than myself can remove the blocks to transcending my ego, and in and of myself, I do not have the power to do so.

Prayer: I let go of that which binds me, that which I have attachments to, and that which I have set expectations on. Thank you, Lord, for hearing this prayer, and for loving me more than I love myself.

STEP THREE

Step: I make the decision here and now, to turn my will and life over to Thee oh Lord. I choose love in the face of fear, your power instead of the forces of the ego, and I accept grace as a gift I don’t fully understand.

Prayer: I surrender over this life, my control over it, my desire to control it, the belief I’m in control of it, and my wantingness for life to go the way I want it to go and still reach truth in the end. Truth is surrendered over as I see it in exchange for Truth that can only be experienced, witnessed and observed from your lens.

STEP FOUR

Step: I choose to make a fearless and searching moral inventory of my life, leaving out nothing of consequence.

Prayer: Please help me to see what needs to be seen in order to surrender over what needs to be surrendered. Thank you for the gift of truth, and for the gift of faith in a power greater than myself restoring me to a life transcendent over the ego.

STEP FIVE

Step: I admitted to God, myself, and to another human being, the exact nature of my findings.

Prayer: Thank you Lord, for the gift of honesty, the gifts of love, and for the opportunity today to share with you and someone else in the blessings of truth.

STEP SIX

Step: I am entirely ready to have God remove my attachments to the baggage of life found through steps 4 and 5.

Prayer: I am ready for your help oh Lord, and for you to take the things that brought shame and destruction into my life away from who I am moving forward.

STEP SEVEN

Step: Lord, please remove from my life the scars of the past, all of my attachments to what I once believed myself to be, allow me to see you more clearly moving forward, and provide me the grace to forgive myself, you, and the world for where I once felt I was wronged.

Prayer: Thank you for the gift of surrender, the blessing of forgiveness, and for the promise of gratitude to come as a way of life. I love you - thank you for loving me more than I love myself.

STEP EIGHT

Step: Made a list of all the people, places and things I harmed along the way and am willing to make an amends to them all.

Prayer: Thank you for showing me what needs to be cleaned up from my past. Please help me have the courage to be willing to make right what needs to be made right. Thank you for the gift of honesty and for the gift of courage. I love you.

STEP NINE

Step: I made direct amends to who I could and where possible, only doing so free of injury to them, myself, and others in our life.

Prayer: I have fear around this step and I have apprehensions about the relief possible from telling another how I wronged them. I surrender over this fear and these apprehensions. Thank you for the chance to clean up my side of the street.

STEP TEN

Step: Endeavor to do both daily, take personal inventory and where I’m wrong, quickly admit it.

Prayer: I surrender over my desires to be right, to be appreciated, wanted, desired, thought highly of, and all desires to be better than another or lord over another.

STEP ELEVEN

Step: Through surrender, forgiveness and gratitude, I continue to improve my conscious contact with Truth, Love, and all other characteristics of my Creator, praying only for God’s will to be what guides my life, and for the power to carry out that will once presented.

Prayer: I surrender over my life to thee of Lord, the steps I take, the thoughts that arise, the beats of my heart, the manifestations of the ego and the workings of the mind.

STEP TWELVE

Step: Having transcended fear and gained the knowledge needed to surrender over all attachments to the ego in all of its forms, I will be the change I wish to see in the world and likewise am willing to sponsor another in going through these steps whenever the opportunity arises.

Prayer: My Creator, perfect is your nature. For everything great and small are displays of your wisdom, your love, and your power. May your will be my own, now and forever more. Thank you for the many blessings of life, the blessing of choice, and for the food provided to me this day. Please forgive me of my sins and provide me the grace to forgive those who’ve sinned against me. Lead me to recognize you in all I see, keep me focused on you above all else, and help me to love my fellow man without positionality. I surrender all that I am, all I believe myself to be, and all the world says I should be. I love you more and more each day – thank you for loving me more than that.