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Friday, September 5, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Sponsors
Most of us never outgrow our need for a sponsor. Someone who has had similar experiences can give us the understanding, which we require in order to continue to grow in the program. A sponsor who maintains current, clean abstinence and who seriously works the program is someone who inspires us to follow. We could not control our disease by ourselves. As we recover, we continue to need help.
With a food sponsor, we can discuss our particular menus and problems. When we make a mistake, we need to share it with another person in order to profit from it and put it behind us. A program sponsor gives us encouragement and insight as we work the steps. When we are maintaining our desired weight, a maintenance sponsor helps us make any necessary adjustments. Sponsorship is one of the most important OA tools, and we are foolish if we do not take advantage of it. Alone, we are powerless over food.
Thank You for sponsors.
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Heard a young tennis player say tonight he was managing himself at the moment. To sponsor myself, is total chaos, the thought of me taking my own advise and having no one around to disagree with me and no one to bounce things off of or show an alternative outlook on things, gosh only knows where I would have ended up. In a ditch somewhere for sure.
As I was told and found out, me alone with me is bad company. Thank God for the sponsor(s) in my life. I have had three pass away.
I was fortunate that my first AA sponsor had been to OA and to Emotions Anonymous.