- Step Seven is a commitment to pursue the remaining five Steps.
- When I’m ready, I say the prayer, then engage wholeheartedly in Steps Eight through Twelve.
- In doing so, I am submitting every belief, thought, and action to God.
- God will then make of me what He needs to make of me.
- I need do nothing but surrender to this process.
- The only choice I ever need to make is this: to choose the voice of the ego (the lower self, the loud voice I think is my own) or the voice of the Higher Power (the higher Self, the quiet voice).
God removes defects.
We take the initiative.
We ask God for the right belief, thinking, and behavior (virtue).
We ask for strength to implement these.
We ask for strength to withstand the pain of doing so.
Eventually the temptation to act out old beliefs, thinking, and behavior fades.
Defects remain ever available.
They are therefore ‘removed to the side of the road’, not zapped forever.
We do not focus on the removal of defects.
We focus on doing God’s will, which is the practice of virtues.
Steps 8 and 9 clear the way practically for doing God’s will.
Steps 8 and 9 help us access the right beliefs, thinking, and behaviors in a general way.
Steps 10, 11, and 12 help us access the right beliefs, thinking, and behaviors in the day and moment.