MY ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON STEP SIX
Step Six
"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character."
1. How necessary is Step Six to our spiritual growth?
Working thru the first step thru
the fifth step I had became entirely ready to have God remove the obsession for
alcohol from my life and by the grace of God He has removed the desire to drink
from me and by faith I have been able to achieve release from other
difficulties as I was honest and humble the grace of God enter my life given me
a new way of life
2. Is this step the beginning of a lifetime job in recovery?
Yes it is a life time experience it gave me the best possible attitude I could take in order to make a mere beginning on this new adventure toward a new way of life had a long way to go if I wanted to change all my defects of character please note it is the defects that need to be changed Its true this does not mean that I expected all my character defects to be lifted out as the desire to drink was most of them I did have to be content with improvement
3. How do we recognize the difference between striving for an
objective and perfection?
Well I sure thought I was ready
to have every single defect removed until I started to look at the mild defects
I did not think I had until I started making a list and yes some of then I
rather enjoyed in a perverse way but I was ready to aim at spiritual perfection
knowing that this could never be given to anyone of us free will always gets in
the way the thing is that we make a beginning, and keep trying.
4. Why must we keep trying to remove our defects of character?
When I started to Look at my defects I was unwilling
to give up at that time I was still looking for the easer softer way and in
some cases it took a lot of time to accept that it was my defect of character
not someone else’s so it’s a life long endeavor to keep on trying not say to
ourselves This I will never give up!
5. Why is our being ready to have them removed all-important?
To
me being ready to have them removed shows me that my fourth and fifth steps
were the of my changing me and my attitudes beginning and if I was not entirely
ready to have God remove all these defects of character then it would seem that
I did not really turn my life over to His care
6. What actions is necessity to complete our goals in this step?
To
me it takes a lot of humility and absolute honesty to even begin to open my
mind to the many changes I have to make in my character and to gain any
real advantage in using step six on problems other than alcohol I need to raise
look toward perfection mind you I said look and be ready to walk towards God
some times quickly and some times slowly but assuredly I had to walk in that
direction
7. How and why is delay dangerous in working on theses goals?
Well
delay for me is nothing more than procrastination like I did all the time when
drinking was always going to be a better person tomorrow never once did I think
about what is happening in today my whole life was based on what I could have
done or what I should have done never what I must do to make the world a better
place for all
8. At what Point do we abandon our limited objectives and move
toward God's will for us?
It is suggested that we become
entirely willing to aim toward perfection some delay might be forgiven heading
toward perfection but I did have to come to grips with some of my worst
character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as I could I
remember early on I said I would never do many things I thought were impossible
to do but yes this did close my mind against the grace of God delay was
dangerous and would be fatal for me I had reached that point to be able to
abandon limited objectives and move toward God's will for me
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