First a quick review:
Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction and that our lives had become unmanageable.Step 2 - Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Step 4 - We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5 - Admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Which brings us to Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
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| From Meditations for Street Chicks Step 6 booklet Available through our website - link to the right |
Self will: Driven by our basic instincts. (Security, Social and Sexual) We become dishonest, selfish, self-seeking, frightened and inconsiderate.
God's will: The concept of God having a plan and this plan being fulfilled.
After taking an inventory of my handicaps, I better understood where I had been selfish, self-seeking, dishonest, inconsiderate and afraid. The purpose of Step 6 is the process of helping us rid ourselves of our character defects. Once you take a good look at yourself, you are better able to understand others. Then, we can live free of resentments, fears, guilt and remorse.
Your character defects may not all go away at once. I thought I only had big, giant, glaring defects of character. Well, I found out that there were also teeny tiny, itsy bitsy, defects as well. Less glaring ones. The key to success with Step 6, is the willingness to have God remove these defects - all of them!
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| From Meditations for Street Chicks Step 6 booklet Available through our website - link to the right |
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