Introducing New Trustee Chair

I’m George, a sexaholic. I’ve been sexually sober since June 12, 2001. Before I found SA, I spent all of my working hours acting out with my cyber girlfriends in chat rooms across several time zones. I was totally consumed by lust. I had a short affair with one of my customers, and I only wanted more.

One of the casualties of my disease was my work ethic. It had gone down the tubes with everything else. When I came into recovery, I quickly figured out that my work hours were for working, and it took me a long time to regain what I had lost. But today I can thank SA for saving my life and my neck. My intention ever since has been to give some of what I’ve received back to the fellowship.

Thus, I have felt privilege to be able to serve as an SA Trustee since July 2011, and this past July, I was elected as Trustee Chair. I am grateful for this opportunity to serve the fellowship. That also puts me—in terms of SA’s inverted pyramid of Service structure—at the very bottom of the pyramid.

I was once inside one of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt. A bunch of us climbed down a narrow V-shaped tunnel and back up the other half into the center of the tomb, which is the burial chamber. As I lay down in the spot where the Pharaoh had been, I started humming different pitches until I hit the resonant note of the chamber (I’m a musician and also a geek!). In my mind’s eye, while everything in the room was vibrating, I could sense the weight of that mountain of hewn stones on top of me. It was eerie.

I like to visualize concepts, and when I think of SA’s Inverted Pyramid of Service, I could see those different levels full of people, from the Groups at the top, the Intergroups just below them, the Regions below them, the General Delegate Assembly next, and the Board of Trustees at the bottom. Then I remembered my Egyptian escapade and realized that I was once again at the bottom of the mountain. For a moment, I could sense the weight of the SA fellowship upon me. Then I remembered that I am still absolutely powerless over everything in my life, and that I need God to do for me what I cannot do for myself. So I asked God to step into my spot to help me to serve under the immense weight of the SA fellowship.

In my role as Chair, I believe that my responsibility is to stand next to Him and be as useful as I can to my fellows. It’s a lot like when my son was a toddler. If I was carrying a big heavy box, he would run up and grab the bottom corner of it and say, “I’ll help you, Daddy!” Of course, he was really no help at all, but I wasn’t about to stop him! And now I am like that toddler standing next to God, who is doing all the heavy lifting.

As a trusted servant at the lowest level of service, I need to be willing to be servant of all. From my vantage point, I only have to look up to see every member of SA above me. I must work my program in such a way that I may be of maximum usefulness to my fellows. I am just another Bozo on the bus—there is nothing special about me. I just happen to be here at this time to serve this Fellowship as best I can, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to do so.

If you need to reach me for any reason, I can be contacted through SAICO. I am, after all, at your service!

Love in Fellowship,