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  1. ...hurt, then our list is VALID and an accepted part of the 12 Steps! Keep your list close and try to make the ammends at another time!
  2. ...to ACCEPT the ammends! That's OK. As long as YOU understood that your list of people are those you may have hurt by our disease WERE..
  3. ...were named on said list! But as well, do NOT push these ammends on others! There is NOTHING that says these people listed are required...
  4. ...difference between THIS Step and the PREVIOUS Step is that in Step 8, we MADE this list...in THIS Step, we USED this list to all that...
  5. Step 9...Made direct ammends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others...UNDERSTAND that the...
  6. ...to understand that this Step is for YOU to follow. This, as ALL Steps, are for those who seek their OWN recovery! Keep up the GOOD WORK!
  7. ...Addict, Alcoholic or those with Mental Illness, to make..There is NOTHING within this step that states for others to accept! Be willing..
  8. ...BUT, this Step over all others, is NOT a Step intended for ALL OTHERS to make or be agreeable to. Basically, THIS Step IS for the...
  9. ...are there NO deviations from said Steps...They ARE etched in STONE...BUT, as they ARE formated to be fitting to ALL who apply them...
  10. Step 8...Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make ammends to them all....Now remember, this, as in ALL the Steps,
  11. ...But within the FELLOWSHIP we can learn that in UNITY with others that suffer the same disease that we do, we CAN arrest this disease!
  12. DISEASE of addiction has wrought upon our and others lives! Learn & know that OUR way, on our own, did NOT work nor will it EVER!...
  13. ASK for this help from our Higher Power, is the ability to learn that we are NOT perfect nor are we IMPERVIUOS to the devastation that our..
  14. And our RECOVERY can ONLY be measured by the STRENGTH from within that is gained FROM that honesty AND humility! For one to be able to..
  15. ...STUCK in the Steps of RECOVERY! Getting HONEST and HUMBLE is the KEY to the sucess for gaining SOBRIETY!
  16. ...our ASSETS to allow our recovery to work! If one can NOT get HUMBLE, and ASK for this strength, then one will find themselves...
  17. ..to have our liabilities REMOVED...Step 7 is the HUMILITY to ASK for the REMOVAL of these liabilities and ASK for the STRENGTH to make..
  18. Now this may seem like a tall order! But the difference from THIS Step and Step 6 is this..as in the 6th Step, we were Ready and prepared.
  19. Now this may seem like a tall order! But the difference from THIS Step and Step 6 is this..as in the 6th Step, we were Ready and prepared..
  20. Step 7...Hunbly asked our Higher Power to remove these liabilities and to help us to strengthen our assets for recovery...