Gri Kitap Yansīmasī
Having decided we want God, as we understood Him, to relieve us of the useless or destructive aspects of our personalities, we have arrived at the Seventh Step.
Gray Book, p. 48 (Step Seven, Line 12-14)
Our personalities were greatly influenced by our disease. We wore many masks, and many times compromised our beliefs and Principles, just to get the next one. The more and the longer we used, the more we as a person were disappearing.
Toward the end it was mostly our disease that was present. In Narcotics Anonymous the Steps and Traditions are designed to repair our broken personalities. Our Spirits are Awakened, and we find a New Way To Live, drug free.
Our defects, although were useful to us in active addiction, have no use for us in our New Way of Life. After coming to Narcotics Anonymous, many of us although clean, still refuse to change. Being Physically clean and Spiritually dirty is a contradiction to Recovery.
When the pain of remaining the same becomes greater than the pain of changing, we Surrender. A deeper level of Surrender is what's call for as we go through each Step. The God of Our Own Understanding will supply us with the Power we need to Live these Spiritual Principles.
Letting go of our Defects and asking the God of Our Understanding to remove our shortcomings along with action, is what makes our Recovery possible. Living the Principles of the Steps is how we work and Live the Steps. We learn to Live the Program and share it with others.
In This Moment: We ask God to remove these useless traits that are no longer needed in this Way Of Life.