The Opportunity of a Lifetime

I have been sober for over twenty-four years through the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, and it has been quite some time since I've been on a "wet" Twelfth Step call. Before the availability of all the treatment centers, the Twelfth Step call was a mainstay of sobriety. When the treatment facilities began taking away our responsibilities in that area, I believe we all became lazy. We still became temporary sponsors and greeted the center patients with love, care, and concern when they were sent to our meetings, but by the time we saw them for the first time, they were clean, groomed, and virtually free of the shakes. They even smelled pretty good.