Ready For More Steps/Footprints?

Ready For More Steps/Footprints?

I can get off track with the best of them! I was rolling along on a step review which I like to do annually, and ensuring the “footprints” I use in my practice are in sync with what must happen to live a quality life.
Life got in the way.
In the review, we had talked about inventory, sharing inventory and being ready to have our personal higher power remove our shortcomings.
The next step is to HUMBLY ask our higher power to remove our shortcomings.
Seems very simple, yet this is an action I have to take every day.
I understood humiliation. Over the years, some of the truly dumb things I had done had humiliated me and those close to me. Humiliation comes out of an ego response to doing embarrassing and unacceptable things.
Being humble is very different. Humble is acting without ego and without ulterior motives, and accepting with grace compliments and other good things. A litmus test for me was compliments. I could not accept them with a simple thank-you. I was not humble enough.
In my inventory step I became aware of the good in me, and learned to be thankful for it. I also clearly identified what is called “my defects of character”. I have learned over the years these defects are as much a part of me as my good qualities. They have not gone away on the journey to a bigger life, they lurk within.
That being said, and at a point where I had enough humility to ask, I asked my higher power to remove my defects. It was not puff, I asked, they were gone.
So I ask in prayer every day, humbly, to have my defects removed.
Sometimes, on a given day, they do not overtly raise their ugly heads.
Other days they do show themselves.
What I do know, my worst days today are better than my best days in years gone by. My defects of character, when they jump out, are not as destructive as they once were, and in being aware of them, they are caught while in action or shortly thereafter! Daily, I ask for them to be removed, and I constantly remain ready to have them gone!
Seems like a very simple thing to do on the surface; ask for something to be removed.
Getting to a point of humility was not easy, and realizing I must ask daily because those defects still are around; this is a daily task I’m prepared to do for the rest of my life.
While I did say my prayers this morning, just reflecting on this action step/footprint is a great reminder!
Do you ask regularly and with humility to have your defects removed? It’s a part of the journey to an abundant and bigger life!!