From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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
3.
... sponsors declared
that we were the victims ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Our sponsors declared that
we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
4.
... sponsors of
those who feel they need ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
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
Relentlessly deepening our dilemma,
our sponsors pointed out our increasing sensitivity to alcohol
-- an allergy, they called it.
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