Step 6

Having finally completed Step 5, I need to start on the next sequence of AA Steps. The ones I have completed are: 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanageable, 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity, 3. Made a decision to turn our will an our lives over to the care of God, 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, and 5. Admitted to God, ourselves, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. The next sequence for me begins with #6: 6. We entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character, 7. Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings, 8. Made a list of all persons we have harmed, 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. I feel pretty good about Step 6 already, but I've learned to spend a few days praying on it first. I'm very happy to have Steps 1-5 behind me. Completing those Steps was one of the most difficult things I've had to do.