Grey Book Reflection
We have all spent much of our lives being anything but humble. We have been humiliated by many of the things that happened to us while using
Gray Book, p. 48 (Step Seven, Lines 15-17)
" most of us avoided true humility until we worked the First Step. " Our Unconditional Surrender made it possible to seek Help from a Power Greater Than Ourselves, in the Second Step. In the Third Step, through our Decision, we Humbly asked God to Guide our Will and our Lives. In Steps Four through Six, we Accept being human by acknowledging and loudly Admitting our faults.
First to God, ourselves and to another Human being. Steps Seven through Nine we start to display our new-found Humility, by practicing Forgiveness in all aspects.
Our Literature states that, "Humility is a part of staying clean, as food and water are to staying alive. " Our Literature says, we devoted our energy towards satisfying our material needs. We never thought of Spiritual growth or asking a Higher Power for direction. Drugs were our Higher Power.
We will volunteer for Humility or suffer humiliation.
By Admitting our powerlessness and unmanageability we achieve our first Glimpse of Humility.