My sponsor was my guiding light and
is still after all these yrs. a person in
recovery who continues to pave the
way for me to follow through her actions
and responsibility in her own life.
Below is one of the 12 steps I learned
early on to incorporate in my everyday
life in order to remain true and honest
in my own recovery.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Knowing what you have done wrong and admitting
it are two very different things. Admitting past
errors and wrongs to a group and receiving support
to change your life is a part of AA that all participants
go through.
As explained to me back in rehab in 1990
that sponsors are folks in recovery doing
service work helping the newcomer work
and guide us thru the steps.
They are also used in our recovery
program to call upon, or get used to
calling upon them, so that when I get
squirrely or tempted to drink, that
I would emmediately call my sponsor
or someone in the program to help
me or talk me out of or guide me away
from wanting to drink my problems
in life away.
Many use sponsors for recovery,
their priest or minister for religious
reason, confessing, spiritual guidance,
doctors for physical or emotional
problems.
As long as I am working on being
responsible and honest in recovery
and in all my affairs then will I become
truly healthy, sober, happy in recovery.
Also, a sponsor or someone you put
ur trust in in sharing private, personal
issues with keeps us from airing out
our dirty laundry so to speak in public
or the rooms of AA.
Keeping recovery lessons we need
to learn in classrooms of AA.
