{"id":268,"date":"2020-12-04T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/recovery\/?p=268"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:11:41","slug":"understanding-the-steps-step-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Steps: Step 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmHvGVW-8PY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmHvGVW-8PY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all, everyone? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><cite>A.A. Big Book, p. 76<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob D. - AA Speakers - &quot;AA failures, low recovery rates, suicides, and surrender&quot; (Part 3 of 5)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6g-EmmHgkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We saw we needn&#8217;t always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility. It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering. A great turning point in\u00a0our lives came when\u00a0we\u00a0sought for\u00a0humility\u00a0as something\u00a0we\u00a0really wanted, rather than as something\u00a0we\u00a0must have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Twelve Steps &amp; Twelve Traditions, pg 75<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God. &#8211; A.A. Big Book, p. 76<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12-steps","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endtherelapse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}