12 Steps to a slip

"12 Steps to a slip," and are the direct result of failure to consciously apply to our lives the 12 Suggested Steps to recovery:

     1.  We neglect 12th Step work.

     2.  We omit contact with the Higher Power.

     3.  We forget personal inventory.

     4.  We assume grudges against others.

     5.  We miss A.A. meetings, and avoid A.A. friends.

     6.  We gradually lose humility.

     7.  We fall into self-pity.

     8.  We worry about unalterables.

     9.  Our thinkin' really starts stinkin'.

    10. We become "cocky" and overconfident.

    11. We neglect to ask help from our Higher Power, and take "just one."

    12. We become a "social drinker." (Temporarily.)

                                           R. H. from Dunkirk, Indiana, Jan. 1949, Grapevine

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