Thirty Days, Sixty, Ninety, Six Months, Seven Years, Thirty-Four. Plastic. Cheap…even lots of years, a few bucks. A plastic disk. It can be the achievement to remember forever or something scary, public recognition when you feel unworthy, something to drive […]
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Copycat
She shares what she heard someone else say last week. She borrows her Sponsor’s concept of God. She spouts program sayings, initials, banalities, knows every truism, chimes in… repeats what she reads in the 12 & 12 to say how […]
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How can I go back? I had been so cocky, so arrogant, so sure I had this figured out. I’d sponsored…even relapsers!…so sure, so authoritatively. Now I’m fifty pounds up, hopeless, helpless, embarrassed, chagrined. I know what the answer is. […]
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Brand new, excited about program. Ready to do this, prepared to be amazed. Quickly, change happens. You really can go through a day without sugar. You actually manage to stop and think before putting food in your mouth. You get […]
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2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. ~ OA 2nd Tradition Elections come and […]
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