Like a loud alarm clock, the First Step brings us to semi-consciousness—although at this point, we may not be sure whether we want to climb out of bed or maybe sleep for just five more minutes. The gentle hand shaking our shoulders as we apply the Second and Third Steps causes us to stand up, stretch, and yawn. We need to wipe the sleep from our eyes to write the Fourth Step and share our Fifth. But as we work the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Steps, we begin noticing a spring in our step and the start of a smile on our lips. Our spirits sing in the shower as we take the Tenth and Eleventh Steps. And then we practice the Twelfth, leaving the house in search of others to awaken.
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The 12 steps will release you from your past resentments. Especially the ones you have with your self. Work them with a sponsor in order and then start them over. I can not stay sober on yesterday’s sobriety.
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Hello all I have been sober for 363 days.with help I recieve from god and this app.I have been home on vacation this week and twice I have heard (the most important relationship you can have is the one with ourselves).I say this because I feel like I need help in this field.i don’t like me much yet let alone love me.So what is the process of getting a sponsor? thanks and GOD BLESS
God job Shane God is wonderful I am 1271 days sober.!!!!!!
Shane, I found a sponsor by going to meetings. Pray and ask your Higher Power to help you find a sponsor. Go to a few meetings early and stay after to talk with people. Tell people you don’t have a sponsor yet and are looking for one. You want someone with good sobriety who has something you want and who will take you through the twelve steps.
All those days sober is a great reason to like yourself!
Yes Sheryl you are right.!!!!!!
Ask someone in a meeting who has been through
The steps
If you attend meetings regularly ask someone who has some solid sobriety and has been through the steps at least once!
I always said that it would take a miracle to keep me sober and today I proudly say that I am 449 days into it.
Awesome
Shane I just wrote a long reply to you question and the website erased my reply by mistake. Please find a sponsor meeting at the end of the next meeting. Where I attend meetings here in Chicago a newcomer usually has a sponsor after the third meeting maximum. I will sponsor you myself if you happen to be in the Chicago area. Ask the chairperson at the next meeting for a sponsor even if you both agree it may be temporary. Working the steps will help you get to the next level as bill says in Bills Story
But my friend sat before me, and he made the point blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself. His human will had failed. Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!
5300 days today
Would not be sober without the steps Andy sponsor and the fellowship
Step 7 the most forgotten step, But it’s the step that separates the Men from the Boys or the Ladies from the Girl.
What I remind myself is the prayer notes now willing you should have “All” of me, Grant me strength, to do your bidding. Faith without works is dead.
“My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.”
Reminding myself I stand tall before my fellows, and when I place Gods will in the forefront of my thoughts my actions are more likely to be thy will. I can’t think my way into right actions, I need to act my way into right thinking.