"Sponsors, OA friends, meetings, and literature are wonerful sources of help for us. We wouldn't want to be without any of these resources because we often find God speaks to us through them." - The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, p. 98
"God speaks to me through other people, especially my sponsor, when I listen." - Voices of Recovery, p. 362
I laughed a bit when I read today's Voices of Recovery. This is my last step of program work before I go to bed. I've done any journaling I am going to do. Attended all meetings I'm going to attend. Made all my calls. Done all my readings. And now, I read my Voices of Recovery, write a quick little response about it, and snuggle up for a night of peaceful rest [baby permitting]. Today, my journaling was on the way that the meeting and the readings today spoke to me about the very things which had been weighing on my mind the past day.
The past weeks the Big Book study group I attend on Thursday nights has been talking about how to approach and speak to a person who is interested in the program. At the time I remember thinking that I wouldn't need to read this chapter for a long time, thinking that I wished we were talking about something that actually applied to me and applied to me now. But as usual, God knew best. Yesterday I was in a position where I would need the exact passages that we read in the study meeting I attended.
All my life I kept asking and asking for God to give me faith. For God to let me know the answer to this question or that. I wonder how many times he was trying to answer, but I just wasn't listening.
