I was at a meeting recently where Step Seven was under discussion: “Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.” The conversation, a very elegant conversation I might say, focused on humility but veered from the topic of “humbly asking to have the shortcomings removed” to a rehash of the shortcomings themselves.
The meeting required me think again about the origin of the Steps and the essence of A.A.
Bill Wilson composed the Steps with some constructive...
