"Today, I was taking my inventory, not yours."
Ernest P. - Lambda Center, 24 Jan 05
That's one of my littany of character defects that I ask to be taken from me each day. I spend so much time critiquing the sobriety of others and maybe not enough time looking at my program. It prevents me from carrying the message to other alcoholics and from doing His will instead of my own.
It helps saying the AA Third Step Prayer:
God, I offer myself to thee. To build with me and to do with me as thy wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help, of Thy Power, Thy Will and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.
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