Let me begin by saying I do not sponsor women anymore. I had some problems with that so the safest solution now is not to. I still am available for chit chat or if you wanna be friends or facebook buddies, I'm very approachable that way, I just avoid those intimate sponsorship relationships with members of the opposite sex. If you're new and you're female, I suggest you find a female sponsor. That's my take on that.

So, we have a meeting in our home every thursday night. Its an AA meeting because I do that program more than I do this one. The meeting used to be on Wed. night but this new job requires me to work that night so the group was kind enough to switch nights. We changed it like eight months ago and the meeting lists have all been changed and that's all good. About 2 months ago I was getting ready for work. Nancy was working an evening shift so she wasn't here. There's a knock at the door. It's a young girl, like really young, 20 maybe. She shakes my hand, introduces herself and says she's there for the meeting. I had to tell her she was a day early. I told her about the change but she said she had just googled it at suppertime and it said the meeting was on wednesday. I checked that and she was right. There was a section at the local website where it hadn't been changed. I fixed that the next day but in the meantime I had to do something about the newcomer. Apparently, she had walked about three miles to get to the meeting and she looked very disappointed. I explained to her that I was the only person there, that I didn't mind putting on a meeting for her, if she was ok with it just being the two of us. She got a big smile on and said that will be great.

She had about 3 months in, but she had just moved here from another town and didn't really know anyone yet. She was starting to feel lonely and isolating and like she was going to drink. So we had the meeting. We read some stuff from the big book on Step One and Two. She had a slice of my cheesecake. I always make something for the meeting. It's old school kitchen style big book study. After the meeting was over she thanked me and went on her merry way. I saw her again at another meeting, sitting by herself so I introduced her to some females close to her age. They seemed to hit it off. I saw her yesterday and I almost didn't recognize her. She thanked me for saving her life that night and for introducing her to her new sponsor. They're all going to the young peoples conference next month. She's on her fourth step. Its all good.

I guess god put me there at that moment to be of service.