It’s interesting that the 3rd Step Prayer does not have an ‘amen’ as it concludes. I have been told that perhaps the 7th step prayer includes that missing ‘amen’. So try putting these two prayers together. I’ve also taken Bill W’s lead from his slight restatement of the 3rd Step Prayer (in As Bill Sees It) changing the word victory to transcendence … helping us embrace how this prayer helps us discover what was been hidden even in situations we may have labeled ‘defeats’ or ‘failures’ in the past. Perhaps, we win and/or we learn. – Bruce M.
God, I offer myself to you — to build with me and to do with me as you will. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do your will. Take away my difficulties, that my transcendence over them may bear witness to those I would help of your power, your love, and your way of life. May I do your will always! (BB p.63)
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.” (BB p.76)
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