Bill P. - The 12 Step Prayer Book: A collection of Favorite 12 Step Prayers and Inspirational Readings

ISBN 1-59285-095-2 1. Prayers. I. P., Bill, 1947 II. D., Lisa. BV245T94 2004 204'.33dc22 2004047284 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-59285-780-7 Editors Note The Twelve Step Prayer Book is a companion volume to Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations written by Bill P.

Cover design by David Spohn Interior design by Rachel Holscher Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc. This book is dedicated
to the memory of Patrick and Aimee Mott Butler St. Paul, Minnesota Contents Introduction This collection of prayers and inspirational readings was written and compiled to assist members of all Twelve Step Fellowships with their prayer life and spiritual progress. Those who are just beginning a life of recovery will find help with working the Eleventh Step. Those who have time in the Program will find a deepening of their spiritual life. Anyone who has trouble finding the right words to speak with their Higher Power may find exactly what they want to say in one of these prayers.

The table of contents will help in selecting a specific topic, and the Guide for Daily Reading offers an easy-to-follow method of using this book. We have added forty-four new prayers and readings in this second edition of The Twelve Step Prayer Book. You can find them in the New Prayers and Readings section, which begins with prayer #140 on page 107. However you may define your Higher Power, may this collection be of assistance to you in your spiritual growth and recovery.

The Lords Prayer 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 us 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, forever and ever. Amen. Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Todays Thought I am but one, but I am one; I cant do everything, But I can do SOMETHING; What I can do, I ought to do, What I ought to do, God helping me, I WILL DO. Sanskrit Proverb Look to this day, For it is life, The very life of life. In its brief course lies all The realities and verities of existence, The bliss of growth, The splendor of action, The glory of power. For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision.

But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. To Be Prayer O Lord, I aint what I ought to be, And I aint what I want to be, And I aint what Im going to be, But O Lord, I thank You That I aint what I used to be. Prayer for the Hurried Lord, slow me down. Ease the pounding of my heart by quieting my mind. Steady my hurried pace.

Give me, in the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tension of my nerves and muscles. Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. Teach me to take minute vacations by slowing down to look at a flower or a cloud, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind me that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.