“My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.” ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76
The joy of life is in the giving. Being freed of my shortcomings, that I may more freely be of service, allows humility to grow in me. My shortcomings can be humbly placed in God’s loving care and be removed. The essence of Step Seven is humility, and what better way to seek humility than by giving all of myself–good and bad–to God, so that He may remove the bad and return to me the good.
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to me, humility represents the best possible attitude i can have in my relationship with my creator. I know that i can’t have my defects removed, only God can. the hard part is letting Him do it on His time table and in His way and not mine. Some have been removed seemingly completely while others still linger on….
i certainly thank God everyday that i’m not the person i used to be when i drank all those 21 years ago !