Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Character defects and shortcomings are the same things. I read that Bill W. was told in a writing class not to use the same phrases twice, so he came up with synonyms rather than using the same words across steps. Someone should have told him it’s ok to use the same terms when talking about the same things when giving instructions to avoid confusion. 🙂
For me, this is the simplest step. It’s a prayer. That’s it. So I take the list I created in Step 6 of all my character defects and what each one gives me, I’m ready to let them go, so now I just need to give God permission to help me rid myself of them. I go over the list with God just like I did with my sponsor, and then I ask Him to remove them from me. Or rather work with me to have them removed. I found that the removal of them isn’t usually miraculous and instantaneous during my prayer. I get to work on them in step 10. But at least I’m now prepared to work through them and have given God permission to work through them with me, having done steps 6 and 7.
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