“There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.” (Page 83, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
Strictly speaking, we don’t maintain our sobriety. God does.
Sometimes people say that they have had trouble stringing together or cobbling together a few days of sobriety.
That’s the problem. Days are not daisies. Daisies are for stringing, not days. Days are not shoes. Shoes are for cobbling, not days.
I surrender to God, and God keeps me sober. He does the stringing. He does the cobbling.
The whole point of alcoholism is that I can’t, yet He can.
So the job is to get out of the way and keep myself busy with whatever I’m given to do.
Then all the stringing and cobbling happens all by itself.