I cannot thank the Lord enough! I…received the grace of living with all my feelings through an attack of lust, where I thought it would kill me. It didn’t, for I…brought it into the open [in the group].… I never imagined such a change being possible, God hearing my prayers so thoroughly!

I have been a member of SA for only three weeks but it seems to be the beginning of a new life and spiritual conversion for me.… God bless you. God bless us. God bless the sex addicts still out there too.

While I did some experimenting, I did come to a solid resolve that masturbation is acting out. My wife and I began to really enjoy a non-sexual friendship from early January till mid-April, when I moved back in with her and the kids. This reconciliation is really like life out of death because we had both come to accept the “death” of our relationship, feeling that there was too much pain and failure and loss of trust to try again. However, solid hope and quality recovery have begun for me since Nov. and for us since January. It is comforting to have a program and lifestyle to help us. There is so much I’d like to share with you.…

I just wanted to say that I appreciate the program very much. I am thankful that SA exists and that it existed when I came in on January 1 of this year. I have been sober since that time—isn’t that something! SA helped me in the most vital aspect of my life where the AA program could not. I have been sober from alcohol since 1970. SA has done so much to resolve some secondary X-factors in my life: mood swings, resentments, manicness, inappropriate comments, anxiety. These were X-factors in that I was so often subject to them but totally perplexed as to my reaction at any given time. In a few words, my knee-jerk methods of coping are melting into an equanimity I have never known in half a century. How sweet it is.…

…Yes, I think the price change of $10.00 is a great value [for the SA book].… Enclosed is a contribution to SA Fellowship because I have enjoyed being on the mailing list and look forward to the possibility of flying out to LA in December for the Convention with another lady…from the SA group.

I am now going to really work the Steps and I have found a life I never thought possible before. Love and peace are within me, and my life is becoming more and more beautiful and joyous. Thank you for sharing your experience, strength and hope and your recovery with us here in Germany.… I am grateful that I am invited to the Los Angeles convention. I am planning to come. Please pass the best wishes to all friends in SA. We love you and may God give you growing sobriety. We often think of you and may God’s grace be with you all the time.