Obladi

fini, yes, I think I'd like to give it a go. But. I had some troubles with previous sponsors telling me "do exactly what I tell you to do," when that "to do" isn't in the book. For instance, my last sponsor didn't seem to take me at my word that Step 1 was in the bag. Which is ok; we could've talked through that. But you might remember that she wanted me to write down every single time alcohol had caused trouble in my life. First off, that sounds more in line with Step 4, but isn't even equivalent to that step as I understand it. Secondly, at that time (and maybe now too) it would have been a pretty traumatic exercise, one I would not have been comfortable doing with a lay person.

I heard a regular attendee of the Saturday meeting speak yesterday that I think might be a good candidate for sponsorship. So... yeah, walking through the steps is certainly on my mind.

We start every meeting with the Serenity Prayer. I've no objection to that because I understand the God in this prayer to be universal.

I rather like The Lord's Prayer as well. My objection to saying it in meetings is that it's Christian, therefore clearly religious as well as exclusionary. I was raised Catholic and have grown to be more of an eclectic spiritually, so it's not a personal thing for me. It just seems that I might be put off if I were Buddhist or Muslim or Jewish... And I do take that personally, if that makes sense.

I'd be happy to do it - just send it over FedEx and I'll take care of it tomorrow. It's only 85* with astoundingly low humidity of 35%. It's so very nice to have the windows open all day.