“7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” (Page 59, Big Book)
An Al-Anon text on Step Seven refers to “my strengths and my
weaknesses”.
The strengths are God-given.
The weaknesses are my character defects.
These are the thinking, speaking, and behaviour patterns
that result from consulting the ego rather than consulting God.
I was created by God.
God did not create those defects.
I made them.
But they are not mine.
They do not belong to me.
They were stolen from the darkness.
And the darkness does not exist.
When the light is turned on, the darkness disappears.