I've included these prayers for you to use as closing prayers at the end of your meditations
on the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 10th steps. You can use them daily at the end of each meditation
or when you have completed a week of meditation on their respective steps. They are not meant
to be used as the personalized prayer you offer back to God during your meditation. Those
prayers are of a personal nature and come from insights that you gain during your meditation. No one
can write those prayers but you and God.



3rd Step Prayer
(Third and Seventh Step Prayers reprinted w/o permission from "Alcoholics Anonymous")

God, I offer myself to You, to do with me as You will.
Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Your will.
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those that I would help
of Your love,
Your power,
and Your way of life.
May I do Your will always.
Amen



3rd Step Prayer
Almighty and merciful Father, I have erred and strayed from Your ways like a lost sheep,
I have followed, to much, the devices and desires of my own heart,
I have offended against Your holy laws,
I have left undone those things which I ought to have done,
and I have done those things which I ought not to have done.

Lord, have mercy upon me,
spare those who confess their faults,
restore those who are penitent,
According to Your promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord;
and grant O most merciful Father for his sake,
that I may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Your holy name .  Amen


7th Step Prayer
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 others.
Grant me strength as I go out from here to do Your bidding.
Amen



Serenity Prayer

God,
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage
to change the things I can; and the

Wisdom
to know the difference.


Living one day at a time; Accepting hardships on the pathway to Peace,
Taking as He did, this world as it is, Not as I would have it.


Trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to His will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this Life and Supremely Happy with Him,
Forever in the Next.


Reinhold Neibuhr -- 1926

I was originally going to use just the "Serenity, Courage, Wisdom" part of the
prayer but decided to include the last two verses because they, more than the first
three, summarize the essence of getting sober, Acceptance of the world as it is and
Surrender to the will of God.