Five Notebooks and Mud Puddle Prayers - AA Speaker - George S.

After his teenage son told him exactly where every dollar went — up his nose, in his arm, or down his throat — George S. walked into Alcoholics Anonymous and met an old-timer who handed him a spiral notebook and two weeks to fill it.

George S. from Freehold, NJ talking about steps 3, 4 and 5 at the Carry This Message group in West Orange, NJ - June 13th 2002

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George S. came into AA after his teenage son laid out the truth about his using and walked out of his life. His sponsor was old-school to the bone — charging him for every excuse, making him kneel in mud puddles for step prayers, and handing him a thick spiral notebook with strict instructions: two weeks for the Fourth Step, any shorter you're lying, any longer you're drinking. George filled five of those notebooks. The Fifth Step brought a relief he'd never felt from any substance, and he's been dragging sponsees through the same process ever since — because every time he takes someone through the steps, he goes through them too. The talk closes with a quiet gut-punch: his granddaughter just kissed him before he walked in the door, and she has never seen him drunk.

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