Step Seven

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Read the second paragraph on page 76:

When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed Step Seven.

• Step Seven is a commitment to pursue the remaining five Steps.
• When I'm ready, I say the prayer, then engage wholeheartedly in Steps Eight through Twelve.
• In doing so, I am submitting every belief, thought, and action to God.
• God will then make of me what He needs to make of me.
• I need do nothing but surrender to this process.
• The only choice I ever need to make is this: to choose the voice of the ego (the lower self, the loud voice I think is my own) or the voice of the Higher Power (the higher Self, the quiet voice).