ACA SERENITY PRAYER:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.

 

4th Step Prayer

Divine creator, help me to be rigorously honest and to care for myself during this Fourth Step process. Let me practice gentleness and not abandon myself on this spiritual journey. Help me remember that I have attributes. (BRB p.171)

 

5th Step Prayer

Divine Creator, thank you for this chance to speak honestly with another person about the events of my life. Help me accept responsibility for my actions. Let me show compassion for myself and my family as I revisit my thinking and actions that have blocked me from your love. Restore my child within. Restore my trust in myself. Amen. (BRB p171)

 

7th Step Prayer - Character Defects

God, I am now ready that you should remove from me all my defects of character which block me from accepting your divine love and living with true humility toward others. Renew my strength so that I might help myself and others along this path of recovery. "I humbly ask you to remove my defects of ___________" Amen. (BRB p 220-221)

 

7th Step Prayer - Laundry List Traits

God, I am now ready that you should integrate my survival traits, which block me from accepting your divine love. Grant me wholeness. "I humbly ask you to integrate my trait of ___________" Amen. (BRB p221)

 

11th Step Prayer

“God, when I look let me truly see. When I listen let me truly hear."

 

Supplemental Prayers (non-ACA)

Transformation Prayer -  St Francis of Assisi

God, 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. God, 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 forgiving that one is forgiven; It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Amen.

 

ACA Beautiful Prayer

God, help me to believe the truth about myself - no matter how beautiful it is!  (Marina W. "Seasons of Your Heart")

 

Alt 11th Step Prayer

"In this moment, I quiet my thoughts and open my mind and heart to God’s guidance for me. In this moment, I feel the gentle peace that conscious contact with god allows. If I am troubled and in doubt, or joyful and serene, I turn to God. I know my path will be revealed and the way to my highest good be made known."