| One Year to work One Step
Today while reading a thread, I came upon a comment that had me scratching my head. A newcomer shared that her sponsor wants her to wait a year before working this life freeing step. The sponsor was taught to work one step a year and so like many of us do, she instructs her poeple to do the same.
I do not believe I would be sober today if I had followed this instruction; the entire premise seems insane to me, waiting to be more clear takes a year per Step? In 31 years of AA, this is a first for me and I thought I had been just about everywhere and obviously I hadn't. What are your thoughts? Is there no cause for concern, is it a fluke or is it a real problem and are members potentially dying because of this instruction?
Ron
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"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Wooden
Excerpts from Original Manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
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