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Serenity Prayer, long version
Third Step Prayer
Seventh Step Prayer
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
O Great Spirit (Indian Prayer)
Cat's Breakfast Prayer

SERENITY PRAYER

(long version
see: The Origin of our Serenity Prayer)

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.

Copyright © The AA Grapevine, January, 1950

Third Step Prayer

"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!"

Alcoholics Anonymous, p.63

Seventh Step Prayer

"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."

Alcoholics Anonymous, p.76

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

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.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (of Alcoholics Anonymous), p. 99

O Great Spirit (Indian Prayer)

	From (NAIGSO) The Native American Indian General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous Web Site.
	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. - Anonymous

Cat's Breakfast Prayer

Thank you God for the food and love and care
and all that makes the world so fair.
Teach us to do thing's we should
and be to others Kind and Good.