FIRST WE ACCEPT THAT CHANGE TAKES TIME -
"But we shouldn't become discouraged if we find that we aren't changing as quickly as we would like. We can't expect to be free of all our defects overnight. (Overeaters Anon., pg. 56)
THEN BRING A FRIEND OR TWO TO HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE -
" ... we simply try to live this program in the here and now. We find joy as we start to learn how to live by the principles ... needed to carry the message of recovery." "Spiritually refreshed we are glad to be alive." (The Basic Text, p. 52)
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) U.S. poet
*HP - Higher Power - is any power greater than oneself. Like Nature, the Cosmos, or even the legal system.
