Healing Choice #1: R “The Reality Choice” I ADMIT that I need help, that I’m powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing, and that my life.

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Healing Choice #1: R “The Reality Choice” I ADMIT that I need help, that I’m powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing, and that my life is unmanageable.

Healing Choice #2: “The Hope Choice” E I Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me change.

Step 2 of “Christian 12 Steps”: “We believe in a Power greater than ourselves that can restore our sanity.”

S- Strength A- Acceptance N- New Life I- Integrity T- Trust Y- Yearn For Progress

H- Higher Power (God) O- Openness To Change P- Power To Change E- Expectation To Change

Response Question #1: What Specific Hurts, Hang-ups, or Habits have you lost Hope in recovering from?

Response Question #2: What Patterns of your thinking or Habits of your behavior do you now acknowledge within yourself as “insane”?

Response Question #3: Will You BELIEVE and RECEIVE the saving help and eternal hope that is available in Jesus Christ?