Good news! As of April 27th, I now have more than two years sobriety. I have put much work into my spiritual recovery as well and both need constant vigilance and much effort. I am most grateful for my brothers and sisters in both the Monday and Wednesday groups and all SA members everywhere for the binding support we share.
I feel compelled to write this letter to share my experience, strength, and hope. I write this as much for me as I do for others in the fellowship. I want to share a message. A message I have learned the hard way.
The autonomy of individual SA groups (Tradition Four) does not extend to matters affecting the fellowship as a whole. Nothing is more basic to the SA fellowship as a whole than what has come to be known as the SA sobriety imperative. The sobriety imperative is the thing which makes SA unique among several 12 Step programs dealing with sexual addiction.
Our groups SA and S-Anon in Frauenfeld have existed since spring 1988. They grow up very slowly. Our meetings are every Friday. Once a month on the first Friday we have our meeting together with S-Anon. For interested members, we also have rooms in our homes that we will make available to visitors for lodging.
Our fellowship continues to grow. We are averaging between 20 to 25 a meeting. By God’s grace there’s a lot of healthy recovery with many over one year of sobriety. God is changing lives slowly but surely. I have almost ten months of sobriety—Praise God!
We now have an ongoing San Diego intergroup and an SA meeting every night of the week. San Diego is so large that a person may need to drive a little.
I am really pleased to be a member of SA and I’m now sober nine months. Miracles do happen. Thank God for SA…. We are growing here in Australia. The city meeting last week was up to ten and the outer city meeting has a strong regular four to five. It really is amazing.
…Our Penn Hills Wednesday night group has varied between nine and twelve attenders the last couple of months. Thanks for being there.
To prevent the Central Office from being placed in a position of endorsement, the CO will no longer mail flyers or do select mailings for regional retreats, marathons, conventions, and the like. The CO will continue to list such activities (SA only) in the Calendar section of Essay.
Two American SAs flew to Germany to attend the German SA Conference this June. We arrived four hours late and missed our German host at the airport. After two obsessive and fearful hours, our powerlessness was rewarded by a phone connection with Kornelius, an SA, who directed us to the Thursday meeting in Mainz.
