We all know how far we get in this program if we as individuals don’t have that First Step realization of our utter powerlessness over lust. Nowhere! Have you ever thought there might be such a thing as the group or SA as a whole being powerless over lust? If our malady has been telling us anything, it is that none of us as individuals or groups has the power to conquer lust and create sobriety, joy, and freedom.
My Ninth Step work began in March 1987, and the only reason I had was because there is a Ninth Step in the program. I sent a letter to the firm where I worked in 1972 and added a check for the electronic parts that I had stolen. I made another amends similar to this to the hospital where I had worked in 1974.
“Darkness” and “light” are sometimes used to symbolize things going on inside of us. The song Starry, Starry Night (sometimes known by the title Vincent) is about the painter, Vincent Van Gogh. One of the lines says, “There is a darkness in my soul.” In the story of ET, the space visitor has a heart-light that visibly glows at times.
I’d like to let you know that our son Simon Alexander was born in the morning of October 28th. We…thank God for his everlasting help. My thanks also to SA, which I found in August 1985 and where I learned so much about myself…and about the love and grace of God, who is with me (and was) all the time in good and bad days.
We are hoping one of us can come in December. Our thoughts, hopes, and prayers are with you! We have added a second meeting night, once a month…and hope to continue to grow—slow but sure!
Our group in Wichita is really growing. We have three meetings a week now! With 10-20 at each meeting! We’re not very sober yet, but our group seems strong. I hear no rationalizing that one form of acting out is okay… Everyone’s goal seems to be SA sobriety.
Our Lexington SA group has recently gone to a second meeting per week.… All the fellows in our group sincerely want sobriety and are earnestly striving for it.…
Some groups have expressed the desire to meet with Roy K. if and when that becomes possible; in the following message, he asks for group response.
I benefitted immensely. I got enough courage to share what I had never been able to share in my home meeting.
Enclosed with this ESSAY is a document which is a first for SA—a proposed method for determining a fellowship-wide group conscience. This tells how every SA group will be involved in voting on matters affecting SA as a whole. This proposal must be ratified by the fellowship—that includes your group—before it can take effect.
