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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day okay so we go into the third session

the last session the third step my favorite line in the book is being convinced.

People miss that.

Some people come in.

I know when I came in, there were people that were working with newer people.

I'm just really thankful.

I'll always be thankful for my sponsor.

But people were like doing the steps with these people and they were literally saying well you know I think yeah I think you know you're alcoholic and you know have you come to believe that a

power grader yes yes I have it says being convinced we're step three, we set out on a course of vigorous action.

I don't know, but I was not convinced early on that I was at step 30.

For me, had it not been worked and talked about with my sponsor, I probably wouldn't have been able to do a thorough four-step.

Because I still wasn't clear about what was going on with me.

And one of the reasons why I'm really, my sponsor did not sponsor a lot of women, and she didn't sponsor a lot of women for this reason and this reason alone my sponsor believed in working with us one on one

we did not like meet at a meeting and go upstairs in the clubhouse you you know, in a room. She met with us one

on one. And when it was our time, it was our time alone. I will be forever appreciative of that

because she was able to sit, go through this book, talk about some stuff that I had been through.

And by the time that we sat down at her house and we did that formal third step where we

both got on our knees because I was so angry at God that I'm just thankful that time was taken.

And I think that's what we, when we do service and we're doing service to people that

are coming in.

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