Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knoweldge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory, and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Step 6: We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Yes, we covered this text a few weeks ago, but this is another angle. This look will explore our willingness (or lack thereof) to let God take away everything that holds us back from living into our true self. Do we use our

Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 3: Surrender is freely yielding our will and life to Another whom we trust more than ourselves.

Step 1: You have to go through the place of thinking you're in control and realizing you're out of control so you can tell God you give up control.