SERENITY HOUSE

Believing is the beginning of each thing that we accomplish in our lives. To be successful, believing must become strong enough to incite a decision, which is a choice of a course of action. Once this decision is made it has to become strong enough to incite action. Once the action becomes strong enough, it will bring about results. Once the results are plain and clear, we will have faith. Faith is true knowledge that comes as the result of action.

The Twelve Steps are based on this plan. these are the principles by which humankind has succeeded or failed.

The Twelve Steps:

• Step 1: Willingness to change
• Step 2: Believe we can change
• Step 3: Decision to change
• Step 4: Inventory to change
• Step 5: Actions to change
• Step 6: Actions to change
• Step 7: Actions to change
• Step 8: Actions to change
• Step 9: Actions to change
• Step 10: Actions to change
• Step 11: Actions to change
• Step 12: Changed

We can now see that faith is knowledge that comes as a result of a complete process. This is why Step 12 is the conclusion, and we should not expect this result (faith) in Step 2. Many people fail because they are expecting true knowledge by faith before they make a decision to take any action and get results. We cannot begin with faith; we can only believe in the beginning. But this is all we need to get us started. - Joe ©