The Pitch and the Catch, Fetching a sponsee, Weeding out a Sponsor

Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.

 But you can't give away something you don't have

Until we have spoken with complete candor with someone and they have done the same with us, we still didn’t belong, Step Five was the answer it was the beginning of a true kin ship between God and Man.  Not only are we to SPEAK  a Fifth Step, we are also to HEAR a Fifth Step, who hears a Fifth Step? In most instances a sponsor, so until you have heard a Fifth you still did not belong, you were circling the field waiting to run out of spiritual  gasoline,  and then its another crash and burn Vern.

The problem with willingness is that it takes  discipline, the problem with  discipline  is that it takes motivation, the problem with motivation is that not now becomes manana.

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