Step 7

Step 7. "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”Alcoholics Anonymous World Service Inc.. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. AA World Services, Inc. Kindle Edition."Copyright © 2022 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (link to the chapter on Step 6 in the AA-approved book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions).This podcast is NOT AA General Service Conference-approved literature. All material contained in these episodes is the experience of one member of the fellowship.NOTE: Safety statement: If at anytime while in meditation, you feel unsafe with what is arising, please pause the meditation session and seek immediate support and grounding. Contemplative practices can disturb stored traumas and may require more direct, hands-on care than I can provide through recorded guidance.A guided and silent meditation on Step 7.Sober Alcoholics and other listeners! There is no need to agonize over character defects or faults that remain despite pure hearts, willingness, humility and prayer. The 12th step proves that to us. See the verses from Ch.18 in the Bhagavad Gita for a different way to say that our defects of character may by divine.It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one’s innate duties, a person does not incur sin. (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 47).18.48: One should not abandon duties born of one’s nature, even if one sees defects in them, O son of Kunti. Indeed, all endeavors are veiled by some evil, as fire is by smoke.