“To take Step Seven, we needed to get out of God’s way.”

– Life with Hope, second edition, page 31

When I entered recovery, I never felt good enough, and I was always trying to be better, so that I would be loveable. I didn’t know that I was OK. It took a lot of Step work to come to realize that I am loveable just as I am, and I don’t need to be different to be OK. No matter how long I’ve been in recovery, every time the Seventh Step is a topic in a meeting, I am surprised to realize that once again I’ve forgotten that my job is not to try to fix myself. It’s my Higher Power’s job to heal me. My job is to ask my Higher Power to remove from me everything that stands in the way of me being a channel of my Higher Power’s love and grace. I can relax then and know that change will happen, though not always according to my time.

Final thought: Higher Power, help me remember to let go of my arrogant self-criticism and turn over to you my shortcomings.