Tiger Woods Twelve Steps to Recovery...did everyone miss it?

Okay, I need to get this off my chest.  Tigar Wood's apology yesterday was the classic 12 steps to recovery AA has used in it's recovery program since the 1930's.  People said it was "too scripted" because they failed to see that he was going through the list of those things he needed to do to come out at the other end of addiction.  It was not tear filled nor was it original...it was quite simply necessary. 

Humans do things because they are human...some good and some bad.  But in the end playing golf does not make you a perfect human and if you thought it did wake up!!!  For goodness sakes golf is show business with all the perks and temptations.  It has always been that way.  Ask anyone that knew Arnold Palmer or any older golfer.  These men lived a life on the road with women and alcohol to spare.  Some gave in to the temptation...some didn't.  While golf may make a person a good follower of rules it does not guarantee good morality.  Sorry!

Here they are, those 12 steps.  Change the addiction, change the religion and there it is.  Do you see it now?

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

In some cases, where other twelve-step groups have adapted the AA steps as guiding principles, they have been altered to emphasize principles important to those particular fellowships, to remove gender-biased or specific religious language.

Just a thought!

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