Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Humility means being teachable
Step Seven suggests that we humbly ask God to help us with our shortcomings, not other people’s. Perhaps we fail to see our shortcomings on many occasions, or, when we do see them, we self-righteously justify them. We have honed in on other people’s shortcomings far more often. Nevertheless, we can discover our own if we begin tracking our inner feelings. They are excellent indicators of the behavior(s) we need to change.
With God’s help we can change or give up any behavior that hinders our lives and relationships. We don’t have to yell in anger or pout over hurt feelings. Withholding our love or plotting revenge can be removed from our bank of reactions. We can ask God for freedom from any behavior we no longer want. And if we are willing to be free of the behavior, it will be removed — on God’s timetable.
If I really want God’s help in getting free of troubling behaviors, I simply have to ask. Help will come.
Hazelden Foundation
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