SOTO Group of Alcoholics Anonymous
Corvallis, Oregon
Some A.A. Prayers
Serenity Prayer (Step Three, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 41)
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
Third Step Prayer (How It Works, Alcoholics Anonymous p. 63)
God, I offer myself to Thee-to build with me and to 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!
Seventh Step Prayer (Into Action, Alcoholics Anonymous p. 76)
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.
Eleventh Step Prayer (Step Eleven, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 99)
Lord, 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.
Lord, 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 self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer (The Book of Common Prayer 1892 [Rev. Shoemaker] page 336.)
OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven.
Give this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation ;
But deliver us from evil :
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Indian Prayer (Anonymous, Native American Indian General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Oh Great Spirit
Whose Voice I Hear in the wind.
Whose breath gives life to the world.
Hear me.
I come to you as one of your many children.
I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom;
May I walk in beauty.
Make my eyes behold the red and purple sunset;
Make my hands respect the things that you
have made,
And my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things
That you have taught your children;
The lessons that you have hidden in
every leaf and rock.
Make me strong . . . not to be superior to my
brothers but to be able to fight my greatest enemy. . .myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you with
straight eyes so that
When life fades as the faded sunset,
My spirit will come to you without shame.