Group & Member News
Miracles are certainly happening here in Nashville. Last night we had 16 people at our SA meeting. We broke into two groups and then after an hour we met altogether for ½ hour beginners meeting.…
Group & Member News
…Another SA group has begun to meet in Lincroft, NJ, on Friday evenings at 8:30. It is held in a parish center.
Retreat and Marathon Reports
Forty-seven attended, mostly from the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, but also including members from as far away as Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, and California. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church was an ideal setting. (Mt. Prospect is the only city we know of where church names are added to city street signs. Wish we knew the history behind that.) Several SAA members attended, and we had marvelous rapport and unity with them.
Last Call for St. Louis!
Time’s running out for supersaver air fares for our next international convention in St. Louis December 5-7. We’re rushing this ESSAY out, hoping everyone can get in under the 30-day advanced notice required for discount air fares.
Editor’s Corner
Periodically, things catch my attention in such a way that make me wonder whether SA is going through some sort of trend. Recently, it seems to me, many of us are becoming more aware of the true power of the disease.
Miscellany
The phone number for SA’s national Central Office in Simi Valley, California is (818) 704-9854. Due to our having only part-time office help, an answering machine is on a considerable portion of the time. But we do respond as soon as we can.
Members Share
…I continue to go to meetings here in CT as well as NY. Sobriety frees me up inside; I’m less self-conscious. And strangely, time goes more quickly as I am more capable of getting involved in the demands of my profession without the burden of lust. Temptation is ever present; each time I have to decide—once again—and unite myself with my Higher Power.
Members Share
I can’t ever begin to tell you what SA has meant to me, or how it has changed my life. I still feel like I’m in the midst of an earthquake, and my whole old world is crumbling around me. But the real world that lies beyond is so peaceful! And beautiful. It feels strange not to be on the emotional roller coaster anymore after 30 years of living there.
Members Share
I believe if I saw myself as I really am, I would not be able to go on. And unless I see more of myself as I really am, I will not see any reason to go on.… I learn by bringing my wrongs to the light. The more I reveal, the more I will have revealed. I can take my inventory, but until I share it with someone, I can’t talk about my willingness to be rid of it.
Members Share
I have recently turned my addiction over to God through the work of some friends who had gone through it before. Needless to say, the release I now experience is so sweet, compared to the hell I was living before.
