Twelve+Steps

(This is not an NA or AA meeting. "Steps to Recovery" groups meet here on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.)
Five years or so ago, some of us began to investigate the well-known "Twelve Step" method as a means to spiritual growth. Anyone familiar with the Twelve Steps may think the word "Spiritual" in the title is redundant. Those less familiar may not know that, from the beginning of the movement, the cure to addiction was sought by spiritual transformation.

St. Paul's 12 Spiritual Steps group is not currently meeting
Here is one online prayer resource

Here are the classic Twelve Steps from Alcoholics Anonymous. Of course they have relevance for any addiction:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ... that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked God to remove all our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will, and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and practice these principles in all our affairs.