A friend of mine put this together. I thought it was very good.

PRAYERS FROM THE AA BIG BOOK

 STEP 2---------page 59

Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point.

 We asked his protection and care with complete abandon.

 Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery…

 STEP 3---------page 63

We are now at Step Three. Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him:

 God I offer myself up to Thee—to build with me and 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!

 We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.

 STEP 4---------page 66-70

RESENTMENT

…deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile…this business of resentment is infinitely grave…we found that it is fatal…when harboring such feelings, we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit...the insanity returns…these things are poison.

We turned back to the list, for it held the key to the future...We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how?  WE COULD NOT WISH THEM AWAY ANY MORE THAN ALCOHOL. This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, LIKE OURSELVES, were sick too.

 We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience we would CHEERFULLY grant a sick friend.

When a person offended we said to ourselves, “This is a sick man. How can I be helpful to him?

GOD SAVE ME FROM BEING ANGRY.

THY WILL BE DONE”

 We avoid retaliation and argument. 

Referring to our list again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking, and frightened? Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours. When we saw our faults we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white.

 FEAR

We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We put them on paper, even though we had no resentment in connection with them…All men of faith have courage. They trust their God. We never apologize for God. Instead we let Him demonstrate, through us, what He can do.

 We ask Him to remove our fear

and direct our attention to what He would have us be.

At once we commence to outgrow fear.  

 (Notice it says “what He would have us BE” not “what He would have us DO” in regards to fear.)

 SEX

We reviewed our conduct over the years past. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate? Whom had we hurt” Did we unjustifiably arouse jealousy, suspicion, or bitterness? Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead” We got this all down on paper and looked at it.  In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test—was it selfish or not?

 We ask God to mold our ideals

and help us to live up to them.

 We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed. Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow toward it. We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing. In other words, we treat sex as we would any other problem.

 In meditation, we ask God what we should do about each specific matter.

The right answer will come, IF WE WANT IT.

 (if we don’t want “IT”, the right answer might still come, but we won’t recognize it.)

God alone can judge our sex situation. Counsel with other persons is often desirable, but we let God be the final judge.

 We earnestly pray for the right ideal,

 for guidance in each questionable situation,

 for sanity,

and for the strength to do the right thing.

 If sex is very troublesome, WE THROW OURSELVES THE HARDER INTO HELPING OTHERS. We think of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves. It quiets the imperious urge, when to yield would mean heartache.

 STEP 5 ---------page 75

Returning home (from the Fifth Step) we find a place where we can be quiet FOR AN HOUR, carefully reviewing what we have done.

 We thank God from the bottom of our heart that we know Him better.

 Taking this book down from our shelf (put it up on a shelf if not already there) we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. Is our work solid so far? Are the stones poperly in place? have we skimped on the cement put into the foundation? Have we tried to make mortar without sand? If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at turn to the Step Six.

 STEP 6---------page 76

We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all—every one? If we still cling to something, we will not let go,

 We ask God to help us be willing.

 STEP 7---------page 76

When ready, we say something like this:

 ”My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.

I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which 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.”

 We have then completed Step Seven.

 STEP 8---------page 76

Now we need more action, without which we find that “Faith without works is dead.” … Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort TO LIVE ON SELF WILL AND RUN THE SHOW OURSELVES.