"Pick your poison" (person, object, body part, etc.) to turn over for 2012, and once again each month we can place that ego obsession into another of the Twelve Steps and begin a totally new us by the end of 2012.

For June - (excerpted from 'Side by Side-the Twelve Steps and A Course in Miracles', (in both English and Spanish) to order click  the LEFT sidebar)  A Course in Miracles' view of. . . 

Step Six: “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”



A Course in Miracles, Text:  "It is not needful that I make...ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore me to my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal. I need add nothing to His plan."


Note that each step has brought us closer to the deepest and darkest areas of our mind. Here the refusal to forgive over a lifetime, perhaps many lifetimes, resides. Here is where we must look at the anger and fear and turn each painful thought over to the Holy Spirit Who knows what to do with these.
Never will the Holy Spirit condemn or punish. Only will He show us the spiritual truth about ourselves. Here, as the light is thrown on the dark recesses of our being, will we see the glory that has been hidden by our fears and defense mechanisms. Our dark thoughts hid not only our own glory but the beauty of our brothers also. Now we are being given a way to find the truth once more and free ourselves by freeing our brothers through the forgiveness of all those errors we have done and seen.
This process is slow, but is sure! We cannot leave one dark cornerstone left in our mind without turning this over to Him for correction. This step takes constant vigilance, and though at the beginning we feebly walk ourselves through this new path, each attempt brings some success building upward to a greater and greater ability to be self-honest and willing to trust the One Who knows. We must do our part, but we must also allow Him to do His.