Gri Kitap Yansīmasī
Staying clean is also an amend because we're no longer part of the problem. Now we're part of the solution.
Gray Book, p. 53 (Step Nine, Lines 33-35)
Our Twelve Steps in Narcotics Anonymous can be seen as Twelve Amends. When we first come in, we first have to get Clean.
Our first Three Steps can be understood as making Amends to a Higher Power. We found that we weren't God and had to Surrender that job to a Power Greater Than Ourselves. Our ideas of God start to change, in the Third Step, which is an Amends.
In the Fourth Step, we start making Amends to ourselves by taking an Honest look at our behavior and the thinking that leads to misbehavior. In the Fifth Step, we begin making Amends to society by getting a reality check before acting on our thinking. In the Sixth Step, we are making Amends to ourselves and society by being aware of our character defects, and doing what we can to lessen their affects. In the Seventh Step, we again are making Amends to God as we Admit we are powerless and need God's Help.
Forgiving self and others in the Eighth and Ninth Step, we learn Compassion for ourselves and others. God Forgives us, We Forgive us, and perhaps Others Forgive us. The Tenth Step can be looked as an Attitude Adjustment, an Amends to the World at Large.
We no longer are fighting fear, depression, anger or anxiety. We continue taking Personal Inventory by Practicing Spiritual Principles.
As a result, we start to feel Good about ourselves and others. By Practicing Spiritual Principles we need the corrective part of the Tenth Step less. Our Amends to ourselves, God and others continue as we try to Achieve Emotional Stability through Prayer and Meditation.
We are making Amends in the Eleventh Step by Achieving that God Conscience, through Conscious Contact with Our Higher Power. In the Twelfth Step, our Amends becomes a continuance of all the Steps, and Practice those Principles in Working and Living our Traditions in all our affairs.
In This Moment: We will continue making Amends. Since Amends means Change, We continue to work on Change for the better; with the Help of our Higher Power, our Sponsor and the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous.