Which image?

I recently had a conversation with a friend about her search for a new sponsor.  She specified the type of person she is looking for and we started to run through the women at our home group looking for a good candidate.  After a while I noticed that all the women we were talking about had programs that were strong in the same areas as my friend's program: very intellectual, a very open approach to the literature, a sensitivity to the historical circumstances in which the program originated, etc.  After a while I suggested we look in the opposite direction, at women who were strong where my friend was weak: those with a very strong background in the Big Book, those with a relatively strict approach to the Steps, and so on.

I think the 'look to your weaknesses' approach has some real value.  If we build on our strengths and on our view of where we should go and what we should be we are making ourselves in our image, not God's.  It makes me think of the story of the Tower of Babel.  If we single-mindedly build our way to heaven it is bound to end badly.