A Dozen Steps

Trippin’ Over Your Tongue?

by Mark on May 1st, 2008

Simply a short collection of tongue twisters heard at meetings… :)

“If we are panic-stricken about this phase of our development..” (BB, Ch 6)

“Rarely have we seen a person in jail who has thoroughly followed our path” (BB, Ch 5)

“Thoroughly have we seen a person fail who has rarely followed our path” (Big Book, Ch 5)

“What! An Order? I can’t go through with it!” (BB, Ch 5)

Step One: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our wives had become unmanageable”

Step Four: “Made a screeching and thorough moral inventory of ourselves”

Step Six: “Were entirely ready to have God remove these defective characters”

Step Seven: “Humbly asked him to restore our shortcomings”

Step Eleven: “Sought through prayer and medication to improve our conscious contact with God…”

Tradition Two: “Our lovers are but trusted servants; they do not govern”

Tradition Two: “Our leaders are but twisted serpents…”

Tradition Eleven: “Animosity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions…”

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