Step 10

Daily Reprieve

Maintaining our spiritual condition through vigorous action.

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Step 10 is the practical application of the previous steps as we go through our day. When emotional disturbance or indecision crops up, we follow this sequence:

Watch
Selfishness, Dishonesty, Resentment, Fear

Ask
God at once to remove them

Discuss
With someone immediately

Amends
Quickly if we have harmed anyone

Help
Turn thoughts to someone we can help

The Vital Sixth Sense

As we practice this, we develop a "vital sixth sense" and become "God-conscious." (Pg.85)

The Miracle: Our new attitude toward liquor is given to us without effort; "it just comes!"
The Condition: "What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition." (Pg.85)

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.”

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