Twelve Steps and the Older Member

TIME after time during my seven years of AA sobriety I have recognized a character defect and have asked God to remove it and He hasn't done it. I have asked why, and for an answer have been driven to an ever more careful consideration of Step Seven. Here I encounter the crucial word "humbly." If I really want a shortcoming removed I am to ask humbly--that is to say, in humility.