ESSAY December 2025 - Looking at the Sun - Kathie S., Devon, UK

Completely exposed before God with a willingness for Him to take away her defects gave her a vital spiritual experience.  I have been in SA for five years, and am three years sober. I have been working through the 12 Steps with my sponsor, from the Step Into Action book. I am well aware that there are other methods in practice in SA, but I can only relate my own story (which I guess is rigorous honesty). It is a very detailed, painstaking method, and very deeply soul-searching, often quite painful, but extremely rewarding and beautiful nevertheless, and highly literature-based. This article is about my most recent, and extremely intense, Step work on beginning with Step Seven. The title reflects the almost white light experience Bill W experienced, but which had never happened to me, until now.