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The Gift of Readiness LG 6/6
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Friday, June 6, 2008
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go The Gift of Readiness Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. --Step Six of Al-Anon We progress to the Sixth Step by working diligently, to the best of our ability, on the first Five Steps. This work readies us for a change of heart, openness to becoming changed by a Power greater than ourselves - God. The path to this willingness can be long and hard. Many of us have to struggle with a behavior or feeling before we become ready to let it go. We need to see, over and over again, that the coping device that once protected us is no longer useful. The defects of character referred to in Step Six are old survival behaviors that once helped us cope with people, life, and ourselves. But now they are getting in our way, and it is time to be willing to have them removed. Trust in this time. Trust that you are being readied to let go of that which is no longer useful. Trust that a change of heart is being worked out in you. God, help me become ready to let go of my defects of character. Help me know, in my mind and soul, that I am ready to let go of my self defeating behaviors, the blocks and barriers to my life. Posted on 06/06/08, 07:06 am |
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Thank you - I needed to hear this today. I have been working hard to identify my character defects. Now I think it's time to work on letting them go.
I keep dealing with situation after situation with the same worthless devices. I think this is actually a version of the definition of insanity. I am ready to find new, effective ways to cope with the problems in my life. In my professional as well as my personal life. My alcoholic boyfriend is not a part of my life anymore but my disease did not leave with him. It's easy to fall back into the old habits without him there to remind me how miserable I was. I need to own my defects so I can identify them when they happen and change my reactions before I end up miserable and stuck. I can trust myself more now to react appropriately because I have let go of some of my character defects that were ruling my life but there is always more to see. Progress - not perfection! 
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" lays on the ground kicking and screaming "i don' wanna' I don' wanna" and folds his arms pouting and frowning"
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