Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

by Bill Pittman

and your ears open” are sometimes the very people afraid to question their own lives.

physicists are seeing that the underlying principles of the universe may be mystical and spiritual.

When I am balanced, I am useful to myself and others. The

The action of the Sixth and Seventh Steps culminates in dropping the rock. We let go of those things pulling us down and keeping us from being the most help we can be in service to ourselves and others. We trust in our Higher Power, and we trust in the process. We surrender what can be surrendered and work out the rest. We come to understand that our life has purpose.

Please join in working toward “emotional sobriety,” recovery with balance, by taking a new look at the Sixth and Seventh Steps. Then jump into action and surrender, making positive progress through a continuing series of spiritual awakenings. We spend less time thinking about changing our character defects. We mature. We change our character defects. THE ANSWERS WILL COME WHEN YOUR OWN HOUSE IS IN ORDER Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as The pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it; Trusting that He will Make all things right If I surrender to His will; That I may be Reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.