Character

One of the results of taking the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and helping others this year has been the restoration of my character and the development of emotional maturity. I am truly a grown up now. I have mature, calm responses to the people and situations that color my days. Yes, I can still get knocked off the beam but with prayer and the counsel of others, I get back up. I wish I could say the same for some of the people in my group. One woman is a divisive, negative gossip. Her lack of character pervades everything she does. In her 60's, she prays on vulnerable new people, attempting to ensnair them in her way of thinking, separating them from the people who can offer them real help and hope. She loudly announces these attempts when I am in earshot. And then there is Eddy's childish, ingnorant response to our conflict. Perhaps I should focus on the people of good character, but honestly there seems to be so few. I am feeling a bit persecuted. It's interesting that these two people have never done any step work. They are two steppers in every sense of the description that Bill W. put forward many years ago. Why does their rejection bother me?