The Steps We Took

by Joe McQ

Overview

The words of this book's title are said aloud every day by thousands of people meeting together to help each other recover from addictions. The addictions may be to alcohol or cocaine, gambling or food, violence or sex and love, but the path to recovery is the same. This is a book of plain-spoken wisdom for people with addictions and people who love them. Joe McQ has been a student of the Twelve Steps for twenty-eight years. He, like tens of thousands of others, lives them every day, one day at a time. In The Steps We Took, Joe takes us through them, one Step at a time, and helps us understand how they work—and how they can change our lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874831511
Publisher:	August House Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/19/2005
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	445,626
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

Read an Excerpt

The Twelve Steps don’t have “don’ts”; they have “dos.” That’s what principles are: guidelines for what to do. The Twelve Steps are principles to live by.

It comes down basically to surrender. The Twelve Steps teach us that successful living is being in harmony with God and our fellow man. It is putting ourselves to maximum service of God and our fellow man. The reward is simple: it’s harmony... it’s happiness.. .it’s contentment.