WITH HUMILITY AS OUR FOIL -
"The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded." "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 ... ." (12 & 12, p. 76)
WE ASK FOR HELP -
We neither grovel ... nor do we demand ... ." "We may [however] pray, meditate, visualize, write, speak aloud, or sing our requests, but whatever form we choose, we communicate our desire to be free from excess baggage. We simply speak from the heart." (How Al-Anon Works, p. 57)
"Ask, and
it will be given
you; Seek, and you
will find; Knock, and
it will be opened to you."
- Jesus of Nazareth ((7~2) BC - (26~36) AD) spiritual leader of Christianity
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself, like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.