This week, we started discussing Chapter 7, "We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings," which spans pages 56 to 67. In seeking God's help to eliminate our shortcomings, we must demonstrate a readiness to surrender through our actions. Advancing through this step requires reflecting on spiritual principles, engaging in service work, gaining insight beyond our addiction and its pervasive influence, seeking and trusting assistance, overcoming fear, comprehending and having faith in the process, managing stress, taking responsibility and action, and concentrating on the solution.
Additionally, the group exchanged insights on the theme of humility. Humility starts with self-acceptance. Embracing humility opens us up to fresh perspectives and ideas. Being open-minded is crucial to humility; as recovering addicts, we acknowledge that we don't have all the answers and many of us are working to change the thought patterns that dominated our thinking during active addiction.