Core
The New Experience Prayer
My Creator,
Please help set aside,
everything I think I know about You,
everything I think I know about myself,
everything I think I know about others,
and everything I think I know
about my own recovery,
All for a new experience with myself,
a new experience with my fellows,
a new experience with you,
and much needed new experience
in my own recovery!
Grant me the power to see the truth.
The Serenity Prayer
God,
Grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer (Long Version)
God,
Grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
The Courage to change the things I can,
and The Wisdom to know the difference …
Help me be patient
with life’s timing,
Grateful for all that I have,
and Understanding towards others
with different struggles.
Give me Strength to rise each day and try again,
Living one day at a time.
Amen
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
A Vision For You
Our book is meant to be suggestive only.
We realize we know only a little.
God will constantly disclose more to you and to us.
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the person who is still sick.
The answers will come, if your own house is in order.
But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got.
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.
This is the Great Fact for us.
Abandon yourself to God as you understand God.
Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows.
Clear away the wreckage of your past.
Give freely of what you find, and join us.
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
May God bless you and keep you— until then.
Spiritual Awakening
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts.
He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial.
We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program.
Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery.
But these are indispensable.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
Tenth Step Prayer
My Higher Power ,
My daily prayer is to best serve you,
I pray I may continue to grow in understanding & effectiveness;
Help me to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear;
Help me to be willing to have You remove them at once;
Help me to be willing to discuss them with someone immediately;
I will make amends quickly if I have harmed anyone;
And then I will turn my thoughts toward helping someone else;
Please help me to remember to practice love and tolerance of others.
And of Myself.
Amen.
GLAAM