Blog for January 20th, 2026
My Sponsor & My Sister
What a week! It’s been very difficult trying to keep up with my sister and my sponsors’ health situation. My heart has been breaking, disturbed, afraid, grateful, sad, reminiscing and trusting God, no matter what. Plus, my husband’s health, he has not been feeling very well either. I’m just so grateful he is not in the hospital like they are.
Getting sick, dying and having hard times are a part of life, a part of recovery. No one is exempt, we are all human. We are all fragile and have needs of some kind or another. Anything from; needing the people at my job to be nicer to me or help me. Or needing to work out, join a gym, eat healthier, and maybe we need guidance, prayer, NA, the fellowship, God, church, our needs are so many, my needs are so many.
I would love for all the people I love and care about to be healthy and happy and safe. I would also love to see our country happy, healthy and safe. One day at a time – we can try. I am happy to say that today I talked to my sponsor, and she is much better. The fact that she could talk was amazing, and she sounded strong and good. Very upbeat.
She ask me about my sister and that is a whole different story, I know she is not long for this world. God has His plans. I had to pray for acceptance, and that too seems to be a day-to-day event. The thing is, my sponsor and my sister both have the same
sponsor! They are “sponsee sisters”. My sister will have 45 years clean come March 1st, and my sponsor has 50 years clean this month in nine more days actually. 😊 They are amazing women. And their sponsor has 53 years clean, coming on 54. She has the most time on any women in NA, who has been in NA her whole recovery.
Also, today is my sister Susan’s birthday, she would be seventy-seven today if she had lived, but the disease of addiction killed her. She was getting clean, but the drugs had taken such a toll on her body and that she went into convulsions and had a heart attack. She was an amazing, beautiful, smart woman. This disease don’t care, the drugs don’t care, it’ll take you out no matter how much or how little you have. It don’t care!
I am so blessed these are the women of my recovery, my sister twelve stepped into my recovery. What a blessing. I think I owe her my life. And for all of my forty years of recovery, we have had so much fun, good times, life events, love, emotions, caring and sharing the NA way. Keeping God at the center of it all. Family is very important to us, and I couldn’t have done any of this without them.
Recovery is unbelievably awesome, and I pray if you are seeking help to stop using drugs, you too will give yourself a break and try NA or some kind of recovery that works for you.
Question of the Week: How’s your sponsor doing?
