No More Excuses

You have led me from my bondage and set me free By all those roads, by all those loving means. That lay within your power and charity.

-Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Step Seven - humbling asking God to remove our shortcomings - does not waste our time with theories or theology. It provides a plan of action driven by spiritual principles. These principles include: honesty, truth telling about ourselves, accepting personal responsibility, making wrongs as right as we can, and trusting God, not only to support the process but to carry the heaviest of the load.

In fact, the ONLY thing suggested to us in this step is for us to ASK. The rub is in the HOW of asking (humbly) and in the WHAT we are asking God to do for us (remove our shortcomings). Make no mistake - the heavy lifting is done by God, not us. And it is his great pleasure to do so.