Making Amends

IN THE PROGRAM of Alcoholics Anonymous, Steps Eight and Nine suggest that, to attain peace, I must make a list of persons I have harmed and make amends to them. For some time, I neatly sidestepped the tough amends, saying, "The Step says, 'except when to do so would injure them or others.' Well, I'm others, aren't I? And some of the amends would clearly hurt me, right?"