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We face complaints from the minute we make that first pot of coffee for our home group to the day we’re voted GSR. Responding with grace and dignity is what counts

My first sponsor tried to teach me the idea of acting with grace and dignity. At the time I didn’t know that she was giving me an actionable idea of how to “strive for spiritual progress.” I thought she was just trying to make me act like a better woman now that I had found recovery. I didn’t know that I would spend the rest of my recovery learning how to do this, often from the times I didn’t. Nor did I know that this was something that I would need to carry into service work through the years.

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