Daily Meditations

In Step Six, we learn more about the necessity of willingness as we become entirely ready to let go of our shortcomings.

In Step Seven, we begin to understand the meaning of humility.

In Steps Eight and Nine, we look at the damage we have done others and set about repairing it. Now we apply the same principles of self-discipline and love for others to all of our actions.

In Step Ten, we discover the value of perseverence in working the Twelve Steps.

In Step Eleven, we learn the principle of spiritual awareness as we turn our attention to the practices of prayer and meditation.

Those of us who live this program don’t simply carry the message; we are the message.

The principle of service which underlies OA’s Twelfth Step can now guide our actions both inside and outside the program.

I can’t; God can; I think I’ll let God.

Any action, no matter how small, will help us to overcome deadly procrastination.

Far from being a negative factor, the admission of our powerlessness over food opens the door to an amazing newfound power.