The Importance of the Group
Getting sobriety in SA was a complicated job for me. First I had to attend meetings where I was told to listen and identify in anticipation of a time when I’d become willing to surrender my lust habit to God. Initially, I resisted this open-mindedness, thinking that I needed to lust to be me. In a year’s worth of meetings, listening to sober and unsober members, I began to realize the benefits of the sober lifestyle for those who had it. I grew enthusiastic about getting serenity, choice, and freedom from lust. One thing that particularly appealed to my ego at that time was that only a sober SA could lead meetings.

