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When we are working Step Six, it is important to remember that we are human and should not place great expectations on ourselves.
Gray Book, p. 47 (Step Six, Lines 7-9)
Even though Steps One through Five qualified us to be entirely ready for Step Six, Willingness is the Spiritual Principle here. Our Gray Book states, " there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to hold on to the old familiar pain than to let go of it for the unknown. " Here again we have to Admit Complete defeat over these defects. They served us well in active addiction.
Some call these defects the tools of the disease. Some of us become attached to them like an old friend.
So it can be a grief process in getting rid of them. Fortunately, we don't have to, the God Of Our Own Understanding will remove them for us. What's needed from us is a deeper level of the Spiritual Principle of Surrender.
We learn to Achieve Humility when asking for Help. We learn that yes we are addicts, but we're also human.
Our aim here is to Achieve Adequacy and not perfection. Our Gray Book reminds us that perfection is a Divine quality that we as humans don't possess. Since the God Of Our Own Understanding only removes what we really want Him to remove; we must want these defects to be removed decisively. God will not force his Goodness on us.
He will need our cooperation, God will move mountains, but we have to bring the shovel. This Spiritual Surgery can only be done with our Complete and Total Surrender.
In This Moment: We will develop the Spiritual Principle of Willingness To Try. We will use the Spiritual Tools we were given in Narcotics Anonymous, to Practice the opposite of our defects.