Spoke with my Sponsor last night, which is a fairly common thing for me to do. Told him that a couple of people in my home group have recently asked me to sponsor them. He reminded me that I'm a little short on clean time to be sponsoring people. I'm well aware of the amount of clean time that I have accrued. After being in the fellowship for a couple of years, I'm also well aware of the fact that clean time doesn't equal recovery. I'm acquainted with a number of folks with multiple years of clean time, one with decades of clean time, who have nothing that I would want, or recommend to a potential sponsee. There's also the fact that even though I'm working the steps, back on step one for my third time through it, I've never made it past the 6th step. That might be a valid point, but the steps are in order for a reason, it seems to me that if I'm ahead of my sponsee in the steps, I should be able to help them with the steps that I've already been through. He also didn't think I should be doing any twelve step work alone. He had valid points on that issue. But as I told him, I've already told another addict that I would spend some time with them and take them to a meeting, so that's what I'm going to do. One of his points was that Men should work with Men, and Women should work with Women. I tend to agree when it comes to sponsorship, but I don't feel that we need to be segregated. We're not all a bunch of Sharks, circling from room to room looking for our next 13th step victim! Anyway one of these days I will hopefully be sponsor material, in my sponsors eyes.

            &nb sp;               Bob777

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