Gri Kitap Yansīmasī
The word humble applies because we approach this Power greater than ourselves to ask for the most wonderous gift of the program; the freedom to live without the limitations of our past ways.
Gray Book, p. 49 (Step Seven, Lines 7-10)
Whenever we're talking or thinking positive about God it's a form of Prayer. Our positive actions using Spiritual Principles is a form of Prayer. When we're writing in our daily journals or writing our Steps our Audience is God.
Our Spirituality is connected to God. Narcotics Anonymous is connected with God.
So it's no surprise that our Recovery should be connected to God. True Anonymity in action dispels the idea of taking any credit for our Recovery. Some members say that Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
The results of applying these Spiritual Tools is Humility. We get Humble; Humble gets us. Humility is the Spiritual Fruit of all our selfless actions.
Step Seven reminds us to approach the God Of Our Own Understanding with this attitude and Principle. Demanding God or telling God what to do is not approaching God with Humility. In fact, some members will get on their knees for this Step. After all, how many times in our Lives have we gotten on our knees to ask for something, well, this should be one of those times; at least in a Spiritual sense anyway.
Our Gratitude is set in Motion when we Practice the Spiritual Principles of Narcotics Anonymous in our Lives on a daily basis. The opposite can also be said about separating ourselves from God and the Program when we don't Practice Spiritual Principles. We're not perfect, but we can strive for Adequacy. We ask for Help, which is a form of Humility.
We learn Self-Acceptance through acknowledging our limitations. We finally make our God an action figure in our Lives.
In This Moment: We will recognize when God is and not present in our thoughts and actions. We will ask for Help.