| 1. |
We admitted we were
powerless over diabetes 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 God. |
| 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 Him to
remove 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 God, praying only for knowledge of
God’s will for us 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 other diabetics, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs. |