Nasalam's Twelve Step Program

(Modeled after the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous)

1. We admitted that we were of ourselves powerless to deal with the complexities of the world and that 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 and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power. *

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

5. Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, praying only for knowledge of its will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

* In the Order of Melchizedek, we interpret "Higher Power" as being ones own spirit, aided by the Spirit of Melchizedek as needed and desired.

Serenity Prayer: by Reinhold Niebuhr

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.

Another Prayer, modeled after an A.A. prayer:

Higher Power, I offer myself to Thee - 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 victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of your Wisdom, Power and Love as a way of life. May I do your will always and dwell in peace.

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