Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn […]
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I Choose the Fireplug!
A speaker at an OA convention once shared that he would have been willing to sit naked on a fireplug and hand out leaflets if that was what his recovery required. Fortunately, our program requires no single act of daring. […]
Continue reading »Sanity Comes
The sanity comes from not following through on the action when the temptation comes. ~ Lanaya B Temptation is not an irresistible force. Temptation is enticement, allurement. Temptation is seduction, a temptress, a siren, a vamp. Temptation is merely… temptation. And […]
Continue reading »Greatest Need
Our group, our recovery, our friends, our support. So important to my getting better, this weekly time that means so much to me. I really don’t need to explain, to answer questions, to start at the beginning, to read all […]
Continue reading »Pride in Abstinence
Some of these people will get loaded again and eventually die of their addictions because they can’t bear to come back through those doors minus the badge of however many years they had without a drink or a drug. That […]
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