Greetings Essay,
I am the Chairperson for the Correctional Facilities Committee in the St Louis area. I had a recent experience talking with the Department of Corrections of the State of Illinois. From this interaction, I put down some of my thoughts about the spiritual nature of addiction.
Anonymous, Missouri, USA
(See SA CFC)
Dear SAICO,
I would like to thank SAICO for assisting with travel and finance to enable David T. to visit us in Australia, where he came to Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle NSW and he spoke to innumerable members of SA and S-Anon and Therapists and Counsellors, and traveled to meet other SA Members.
The Conferences he chaired were of great value to members and will no doubt leave a lasting effect ongoing here in Australia.
Please pass this on to all relevant members and Committees in SAICO please.
God bless. Best Regards,
Steve P., Australia
Dave T. in Singapore
(From Facebook)
This mission trip to the Asia Pacific Rim I am working with other recovering addicts, therapist, psychologist, spiritual leaders and other mental health professionals. It has been an amazing learning experience for me and a wonderful chance to share my experience, strength, and hope with others.
Because these are Anonymous programs I am not posting any pictures, times, dates, names whatever. I am only posting that I’m here and the wonderful love and care that has been shown to me by so many of the members.
I just want to share what has happened in my life because of the help of God and other people focused especially on my specific solutions to my problems. Those Solutions stopped working and became the problems.
This is storytelling at its finest. What my life was like, what brought me in the doors and what life is like now. All my experiences with religion, family stories and traveling to many other countries to see other spiritualities and cultures has been an amazing training ground.
Add strings, a few coins, some folklore and lots of work to grow spiritually has allowed me to be here. However because of anonymity I’m just showing the social part of the trip.
Dave T., Oklahoma, USA
Greetings from Poland…
Hello. I am Sebastian. I come from one Polish SA group from northeast Poland. I have read Your Essay on the internet and I very like it. It’s a useful magazine to recovery and to see how [well] can I understand English texts. I have also read your humor for SA and I have read that you allowed the readers to send the humor stories to the Essay. We also have our sense of humor in our Polish groups, so I decided to send You something. Maybe you will like it. Sorry for my English. I know, that it isn’t perfect.
Sebastian P., Poland
(See Humor For SA)
