TOOLS: “The OA tools of recovery help us work the Steps and refrain from compulsive overeating. The nine tools are: a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, telephone, writing, literature, action plan, anonymity and service. For more information, read The Tools […]
Continue reading »My Message
My mess is my message. Your mess is your message. ~ Stan Standridge We come with unmanageable lives, wrecked, wretched. We come with nothing — or not much more than nothing — but our mess. But that raw material, that garbage heap, that […]
Continue reading »Appointment
It’s on the books. The meeting Wednesday noon, another Tuesday evening, then early early Wednesday. No wonder he calls it my cult. How silly it seems, the same thing over and over, not just once weekly but again and again… […]
Continue reading »A Matter of Faith
They tell of a long-ago picnic, crowds of people, far from towns, hungry, needing. They speak of a blessing of small rolls and a few fish, of abundance flowing when food had seemed scarce. They report lessons of trust, of […]
Continue reading »Surfing
It’s easy, thrilling, to ride the wave of pink-cloud abstinence, that early recovery in mind, body, spirit… It’s easy to glide, quickly reaching an early high then moving smoothy riding on momentum enthusiasm ruling the day. But comes the day […]
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