Step by Step
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022
“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” – Alcoholics Anonymous, Step Seven
Today, let me not be too premature in taking the vital Seventh Step. If I take it prematurely, the defects I ask to be removed but am not truly willing to surrender may come back and bite me in the form of a slip or relapse. Step Seven is the culmination of the previous three Steps in which we first make our “searching and fearless moral inventory,” and then admit “the exact nature of our wrongs to God, to ourselves and to another human being.” But the Sixth Step may pack the most potent punch in that it suggests that we are “entirely ready” to have our Higher Power of our understanding remove our character defects. If today I take the Seventh Step, grant that I be genuinely ready so that I may not later take back a defect that triggers another downfall. And our common journey continues. Step by step. – Chris M., 2022
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