7/6 Language of Letting Go
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7/6 Language of Letting Go
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Step Seven
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
--Step Seven of Al-Anon
In the Sixth and Seventh Steps of the program, we become willing to let go of our defects of character - issues, behaviors, old feelings, unresolved grief, and beliefs that are blocking us from the joy that is ours. Then we ask God to take them from us.
Isn't that simple? We don't have to contort ourselves to make ourselves change. We don't have to force change. For once, we don't have to "do it ourselves." All we have to do is strive for an attitude of willingness and humility. All we have to do is ask God for what we want and need, and then trust God to do for us that which we cannot do and do not have to do for ourselves.
We do not have to watch with bated breath for how and when we shall change. This is not a self-help program. In this miraculous and effective program that has brought about recovery and change for millions, we become changed by working the Steps.
Today, God, help me surrender to recovery and to the process by which I become changed. Help me focus on the Step I need. Help me do my part, relax, and allow the rest to happen.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
Step Seven
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
--Step Seven of Al-Anon
In the Sixth and Seventh Steps of the program, we become willing to let go of our defects of character - issues, behaviors, old feelings, unresolved grief, and beliefs that are blocking us from the joy that is ours. Then we ask God to take them from us.
Isn't that simple? We don't have to contort ourselves to make ourselves change. We don't have to force change. For once, we don't have to "do it ourselves." All we have to do is strive for an attitude of willingness and humility. All we have to do is ask God for what we want and need, and then trust God to do for us that which we cannot do and do not have to do for ourselves.
We do not have to watch with bated breath for how and when we shall change. This is not a self-help program. In this miraculous and effective program that has brought about recovery and change for millions, we become changed by working the Steps.
Today, God, help me surrender to recovery and to the process by which I become changed. Help me focus on the Step I need. Help me do my part, relax, and allow the rest to happen.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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Tough time with this one right now.
My counselor noticed I didn't feel acceptable because of my codie-ism during our last session and asked me why.
I told her that I felt like on the outside my ducks were lined up in a row, but on the inside they were all over the place.
She then told me - same ducks and they're lined up just fine...only I was looking at it from a skewn perspective.
I'll get there...but thanks so much for posting this today - I needed to hear this. Sometimes the hardest things to learn are the least complicated.
My counselor noticed I didn't feel acceptable because of my codie-ism during our last session and asked me why.
I told her that I felt like on the outside my ducks were lined up in a row, but on the inside they were all over the place.
She then told me - same ducks and they're lined up just fine...only I was looking at it from a skewn perspective.
I'll get there...but thanks so much for posting this today - I needed to hear this. Sometimes the hardest things to learn are the least complicated.
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