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These holes are like my defects of character. I can become willing to patch those little holes. Or I can risk sinking altogether.

Learning who we are through the Steps

His relapse took the good life away from him. He got serious about sobriety in a jail cell

Sharon had lost her driver’s license after her most recent arrest. After the meeting I would drive her home. All this time in the car was sponsorship time

If I’m a sober woman of any worth at all, then I’m required by all the gifts God has given me to repair whatever small tear I can in the universe.

A former drinking friend turns into a guiding sponsor

My choices in a sponsor with longer sobriety than I had were few. Then one day, our youngest child in AA happened to mention something about her sponsee

She’s moved three times in three decades—and each time found a foundation in AA

Drinking, she missed that most essential of things: her life

From a blackout to an awakening of the spirit, all in an instant….

One member says we should take good care how we describe our meetings, because our common welfare comes first

Hitting bottom even in sobriety, he discovered that hard-won change can be a lifesaver

We held our first AA picnic at a ranch 15 miles out of town. We marked the way there with signs of camels.
The camels meant a “dry” picnic.