Quote: Daily contemplations for members of Christs Anonymous - The Thirteenth Step: January 13 Fallibility As a result of diligently working our Seventh Step on a daily basis, gradually, we became aware that we made many mistakes in the course of our day and therefore we needed to make amends to our Mother Earth body/physical body, ethereal body/energy-body/space and time body, astral body/emotional body, causal body/mental body/thought body and Soul/Super Ego/social body plus the others that we interacted with in our Soul life, our social life, and with this purpose in mind, we moved on to Step Eight. Christs Anonymous - The Thirteenth Step, page 73 In Step Four and Six in our ChrisAn Program we had got to know our defects of character and our virtues well. In Step Seven, we were therefore entirely ready to cooperate with our chosen Higher Power about being be liberated from our compulsive use of our defects of character. Even if we were willing to be liberated from our use of our defects of character and had the help and support in this work of our chosen Higher Power, we discovered that our liberation from our use of our defects of character is a slow process. If we for example look at our hatred and our love like two trees that can grow in our psychological landscape and imagine that our Higher Power automatically pulls all of the Tree of Hatred up by the its roots and instead plant a fully grown Tree of Love in its place, we would probably become so alien to ourselves that we would go crazy because of it, or we might even die of shock. Therefore, we need to follow the suggestion of Step Seven by praying to our chosen Higher Power: Liberate me from this (name of defect of character), when we observe this (name of defect of character) become active and then leave it to our Higher Power to transform it to its opposite, so the transformation of our psychological landscape can take place at a pace we can tolerate. As a result of this work, we discovered that we made many mistakes in the course of a day as far as our goal is concerned that in ChrisAn is to achieve Joy of Being no matter the circumstances, and therefore we need to learn how we can correct our mistakes without being ashamed of being fallible. Todays contemplation Today I will make myself ready to learn to correct my mistakes without feeling ashamed or feeling guilty because I am fallible.
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