Here
are the steps which are a program of recovery
We
admitted we were powerless
over gambling - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came
to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and
living.
Made
a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own
understanding.
Made
a searching and fearless
moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
Admitted
to ourselves and to
another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were
entirely ready to have
these defects of character removed.
Humbly
asked God (of our
understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
Made
a list of all persons we
had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Make
direct amends to such
people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
Continued
to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Sought
through prayer and
meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood
Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to
carry that out.
Having
made an effort to
practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this
message to other compulsive gamblers.