![]() Since then my service in program has been of paramount importance to me, so I sponsor and serve at the group and Intergroup levels, I attend all events I can, and I am in service at most of the meetings I attend. As our primary purpose states, “we carry the message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.” The essence of my program is that of committing to service. When I asked why, she said, “Because this stuff keeps us abstinent.” That was good enough for me. My sponsor told me that we were going to go in there and wash all those dirty pans. “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”–John Fitzgerald KennedyĪt one of the first program functions I ever attended, there were a large number of pots and pans that needed to be washed in the kitchen. They will always materialize if we work for them. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. As God’s people we stand on our feet we don’t crawl before anyone. We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. And there may be a valid reason for postponement in some cases. Some people cannot be seen-we sent them an honest letter. We don’t worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would right them if we could. There may be some wrongs we can never fully right. We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone. Our behavior will convince them more than our words. We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters. ![]() Unless one’s family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them. So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own actions are partly responsible. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won’t fill the bill at all. Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead.
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