Me a Sponsor

Last night, a new member of our Alcoholics Anonymous group asked me to be her sponsor.. Yes, me! Although it was after only a few skipped beats that I gave her my reply, it seemed like an eternity, because a lot of questions immediately surfaced in my mind. “Am I qualified to be a sponsor? How will I be able to say the right words to her at the right time? Is the quality of my sobriety sound enough to inspire her? What if I do irreparable damage by a faulty response to an important question? I am not a very profound person and am still finding my own way, so how can I have all the answers for her? Some of the Steps are difficult for me to follow, so wouldn’t it simply be a case of ‘the blind leading the blind?” At that point in my panic, I noticed the expression on her face, a mixture of fear, hope, and the lost look of one seeing the inevitability of rejection. I was immediately snapped back to that evening in my life when I nervously defiant, approached an apparently serene fellow member and asked her to be my sponsor. I had been advised to make the attempt, and I knew that I needed all the help that AA had to offer, but a cold water splash was dreaded and expected. After all, what person in her right mind would want to sponsor me? When she hugged me and smiled and said, “I’d be delighted,” my sudden sense of relief and gratitude was almost overwhelming. Taking that initial hurdle turned out to be just the beginning of a long and extremely valuable friendsh...
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