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Step Nine Making Amends
Step 9, influences healing and personal growth. 🌟 ‘Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do…
A Promise that Came True
Promise Ten: “Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.”(The Promises are from pages 83-84 of the Big…
Different Ways of Finding Recovery
February 1, 2018 Thank you, OA, for embracing and encouraging diversity. No matter where I am in my recovery process,…
Fun and Fast: The Tool of Writing
May 26, 2026 “Sometimes I end up on Lonely Lane, and by the time I realize I’m headed for the…
An Action Plan for Recovering from Surgery
April 7, 2025 The most important thing I have done is surrender the outcome of my surgery to my Higher…
Step 7 – Humility
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Humility is not the absence of self-worth—it’s the presence of self-awareness…
Many Ways to Serve
April 1, 2020 There are so many ways to give service in OA and pay forward all we have so…
Tradition 7 Responsibility – OA Reel
OA’s Tradition 7 says: “Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.” 🏦 This helps us maintain…
I Dread the Human Element (Telephone, Sponsorship, and Service), but I Do It Anyway to Keep My Recovery
September 24, 2025 One day at a time, I’m working on honesty. Fun? Not particularly, but the freedom tastes much…
Concept 7 Balance
📜 “The Board of Trustees has legal rights and responsibilities accorded to them by OA Bylaws, Subpart A; the rights…
Do You Hear Me?
Do you hear me?There are timesI doubt,but…I know You do.My crazy braincan make me believe thingsthat are not true,but…You have…
Finding My Own Higher Power
I have no trouble using the word God. Sometimes I also use Source or the Universe. My relationship with a…
A Measure of Trust…
At my first OA meeting in hearing the word God, it really turned me off. Then in hearing about giving…
Spotlight On Two-Way Prayer
My entire OA recovery has been online, My “home” meeting is called “On Awakening”, and it is a two-way prayer…
The Spiritual Principle of Step 6: Willingness
Recently, while taking a couple of sponsees through Steps 1 to 3, I found myself reflecting on something simple yet…