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AUGUST 21 Reflection for the Day

After we take an inventory, determining and admitting the exact nature of our wrongs, we become “entirely ready,” as the Sixth Step suggests, “to have these defects of character removed.” Sure, it’s easy to feel like that and be “entirely ready” on a morning-after a gambling fiasco, but we know in such desperate moments that our motive may be colored by a misery of the moment. The further we get away from the last compulsive numbers binge, the more innocent it looks. Possibly even more attractive.

Am I ready THEN to have these defects of character removed?

Today I Pray

May I be “entirely ready” to have my character defects removed. May those words “entirely ready” re-summon my determination in case it should fade with time and abstinence. May God be my strength, since I alone cannot erase my faults.

Today I Will Remember

I am “entirely ready.”