“7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” (Page 59, Big Book)
The comedian Tommy Cooper started out as a magician, but things kept going wrong, and people would laugh at him, so he decided he’d just be a comedian instead, a comedian for whom everything goes wrong. It worked.
Most ‘removal’ of shortcomings involves a restructuring of how I live so that the assets are capitalised on and the defects are either capitalised on or worked around.
I don’t change. How I live changes. I haven’t changed one bit.