From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SPONSORS occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... sponsors?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same
kind of
confidence and
faith in
these people who have been
infected and sometimes
crippled by our
own illness that we have in our
sponsors?
2.
... sponsors come
to the rescue.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
At this
stage of the
inventory proceedings, our
sponsors
come to the
rescue.
3.
... sponsors declared
that we were the victims ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
4.
... sponsors of
those who feel they need ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
sponsors of those who
feel
they
need no
inventory
are
confronted with quite another
problem.
5.
... sponsors or
spiritual advisers that we first ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Often it was while
working on this
Step with our
sponsors or
spiritual advisers that
we
first felt truly able to
forgive others,
no
matter how
deeply we
felt they had
wronged us.
6.
... sponsors pointed
out our increasing sensitivity to ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
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