How do you get humble? Well, did the message of the first five steps sink in? If it did, you have found humility. If the message somehow escaped you, go back and work them again, find out what you did wrong, and then try this step again.
For me, once I had done a thorough inventory, it was painfully obvious that I had overstepped my bounds many, many times. I had crossed the line with friends, family, lovers, employers, you name it, I hurt em. But the power of the drink always allowed me to rationalize my behavior, to blame the next guy, to blame the one injured.
Asking In Deep Humility
Now sober, and working the steps, coming to terms with my actions, living up to and accepting responsibility for the consequences of those actions, (or ommissions!), I could see that I was a complete, 100 percent, bonifide jerk of the first order. Recognizing what I had done, I was immediately ashamed, but remorse, and then prayer, helped me through it.
The only avenue to redemption was by making amends, but first, I had to ask HP to remove my defects. And the only way to ask Him was in deep humility.
The gawdawful experience of re-living those horrible moments in my life was, in short, humbling!
Sox
