Edited sentence: " [page 63], "My Creator,." [page 76], "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" [Step Eleven, page 59]), it is a tactic often employed by some in AA to make the program more palatable and less offensive to newcomers.While this directly and explicitly conflicts with the Big Book ("Many of us said to our Maker