Daily Sobriety Renewal 

After serenity prayer, one person reads the following questions and both people answer them: 

1.  Are you willing to admit you are powerless over (name of addiction)?

2.  Do you desire sobriety and freedom from the actions and obsessions of this addiction, as well as further recovery, for the next 24 hours? 

3.  Are you willing to do whatever is necessary to protect this sobriety for the next 24 hours, including being rigorously honest, praying to God, calling on others, forgiving all resentments, reading literature, going to meetings, setting and maintaining boundaries, maintaining an attitude of gratitude, placing accomplishments above activities, refraining from negative thinking, and surrendering all self pity, fears, and entitlements?         

4.  Are you willing to do whatever is necessary to continue in recovery - in other words, work the steps for at least 15 minutes (up to several hours if necessary) in the next 24 hours?         

5.  Do you realize that this renewal does not keep us sober - God does - however, it does help us to be aware of ourselves and to be accountable to others? 

6.  Do you realize that this renewal is only for these 24 hours, and that tomorrow you are free to go another way? 

7. Describe any temptations you’ve had in the last 24 hours and how you handled them. 

8. Tell me about any other noise or disturbance in your brain. 

9. Tell me about your quiet time and other time spent with your HP, and about your step work during the past 24 hours. 

10. Are you willing with me now to turn your life and your will over to the care of God, the one who kept you sober yesterday and protected you from the full consequences of your addiction and negative attitudes in the past?
 

STEP PRAYERS (Do one each day)

 2nd Step
God, I’m standing at the turning point right now.  Give me your protection and care as I abandon myself to you and give up my old ways and my old ideas just for today.   Amen

 3rd Step
God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.  Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.  Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy Way of life.  May I do Thy will always!  Amen.

 4th Step
4a. When I am disturbed by the conduct (symptom) of others:
God, help me to show this person the same tolerance, pity and patience that I would cheerfully grant a sick friend.  This is a sick person.  How can I be helpful to him?  God, save me from being angry.  Thy will be done.  Amen 

4b.  When I am afraid:
God, remove my fear from me and direct my attention to what you would have me be. I ask in your name. Amen 

4c.  When I am aware of my own defects and am seeking God’s help to change:
God, mold my ideals in this particular area of my life and help me to live up to them.  What should I do in each specific matter?  Guide me, God, and give me strength to do right.  Amen.

 5th Step
God, I thank you from the bottom of my heart that I know you better.  Help me become aware of anything I have omitted about discussing with another person.  Help me to do what is necessary to walk as a free man at last.  Amen. 

6th Step
God, help me to become willing to let go of all the things to which I still cling.  Help me now to be ready to let you remove all of these defects that your will and purpose may take their place.  Amen.

7th Step
My creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.  Please remove from me every single defect of character that stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.  Grant me strength as I go out from here to do your bidding.  Amen. 

8th Step
God, help me to become willing to sweep away the debris of self will and self-reliant living.  God, thy will be done for this person, as well as for me.  Amen. 

9th Step
God, give me the strength and direction to do the right thing no matter what the consequences may be.  Help me consider others and not harm them in any way.  Help me consult with others before I take any actions that would cause me to be sorry.   Help me to not repeat such behavior.  Show me the way of Patience, Tolerance, Kindliness and Love and help me live the spiritual life.  Amen. 

10th Step
God, remove the selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear that have cropped up in my life right now.  Help me to discuss this with someone immediately and make amends quickly if I have harmed anyone.  Help me to cease fighting anything or anyone.  Show me where I may be helpful to someone else. Help me react sanely, not cocky and afraid.  How can I best serve you? Your will be done. Amen. 

11th Step
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace — that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth -that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair, I may bring hope - that where there are shadows, I may bring light - that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood - to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.  Amen

 Night Prayer
God, forgive where I have been resentful, selfish, dishonest and afraid today.  Help me to not keep anything to myself but to discuss it openly with another person.  Show me where I owe an apology and help me make it.  Help me to be kind and loving to all people.  Use me in the mainstream of life, God.  Remove any worry, remorse or morbid reflection that I may be of usefulness to others. Amen.
 

Day Prayer
God, direct my thinking today so that it be divorced of self-pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear.  Inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions.  Help me to relax and take it easy.  Free me from doubt and indecision.  Guide me through this day and show me my next step.  God, give me what I need to take care of any problems.  I ask all these things that I may be of maximum service to you and my fellow man.  Amen. 

As we go along
God, I’m agitated and doubtful right now. Help me to stop and remember that I’ve made a decision to let you be my God. Give me the right thoughts and actions.  God, save me from fear, anger, worry, self pity or foolish decisions that your will, not mine, be done.  Amen.