Topic: Sponsorship - Dying Art or Joy of Living
Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:27.6 | Answership, do we still honor the practice or is it a dying art? |
| 0:33.7 | And that might seem like a strange thing to say, but I know so many people who don't sponsor. |
| 0:43.2 | I know people who choose not to sponsor. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm really glad that there was the announcement if you're willing to sponsor and we'll talk |
| 0:53.0 | about that in a minute. |
| 0:55.4 | The fact that I've actually been in rooms where I was the only person that raised my hand, |
| 1:02.2 | willing to sponsor is a very, very sad thing. |
| 1:06.6 | What are we passing on or what are we not passing on? |
| 1:11.7 | Have we become so soft? |
| 1:13.5 | Call me when you feel like it. |
| 1:15.2 | I never feel like it, okay? |
| 1:17.4 | Call me when you feel like drinking. |
| 1:19.4 | I don't feel like drinking. |
| 1:21.1 | And yet, this kind of thinking doesn't lend for group creation or solid recovery. |
| 1:37.1 | Because I used to think AA was about just not drinking and going to some of those meetings. |
| 1:43.4 | So let me give you a little bit of the stats for me. |
| 1:45.8 | So my sobriety date, it's not my first one, but it's my current one, |
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