This step is not about becoming more polished or more ideal. It is about being made new, awakened, and brought back into reality, because the old way of living is a kind of sleep that slowly drains life and meaning out of me.
I cannot do this step without relationship. To ask God in humility means that I begin to know him well enough to trust that he wants to heal me, not shame me, and that what he offers is not mere improvement but a new kind of life.
For me, that is the heart of Step Seven: not self-perfection, but rebirth. I ask God to remove what blocks life in me, so that I can become more real, more alive, and more able to live with purpose and love.
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quotingWillingness is not only about seeing my defects, but about letting go of them. I may admit that something is wrong, and still cling to it, because even my defects and old patterns seem to offer me something I am afraid to lose.
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Freedom begins when I stop trying to possess what keeps me bound. That includes not only obvious faults, but also the beliefs, attachments, and familiar inner stories that have become part of how I define myself.
I cannot force this surrender by willpower alone. I have to loosen my grip, shift the centre away from my problem and back to God, and trust that in this relationship something in me can truly change.
This is why Step Six feels like both loss and freedom. I let go of control, of fixed outcomes, even of the need to know how and when I will change, and I keep returning to the One who can lead me further than I can lead myself.
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