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Improving My Relationship with My HP

Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

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Humbly Asking and turning it over

Step 7 - humbly ask to remove defects

Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

”Each of my character defects is replaced by its opposite, and I am equipped with a new set of survival skills.” — Voices of Recovery, October 7.

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Growth is Taking Responsibility and Being Self-supporting

OA 7th Tradition is about self-support

Tradition Seven: Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

“Taking responsibility is a meaningful sign of spiritual and emotional growth.” — Voices of Recovery, September 8.

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