Working the Twelfth Step means carrying the message to those who still suffer from our disease. To be a messenger of hope has to be the highest form of service we can provide to our fellow compulsive eaters.

Giving service means more than just volunteering to set up chairs at a meeting; it's more than tidying up afterwards; it's more than giving another person a ride to the meeting. Giving service means living a triumphant program, every single day. It's taking a telephone call from someone who's having a rough day, and it's making an outreach call even when I don't feel like it. It's not hiding my slips in abstinence, and it sure isn't wallowing in my misery. It's getting up and moving on. It's presenting a positive view of the program.

We don't recruit members to recovery, we attract them by our example. If I don't put a positive face on my program, then I can't expect a fellow sufferer to consider the Twelve Steps as a way to recover from the disease of compulsive overeating. I know this program works; they won't know if I don't show them that it does.

One Day at a Time . . .
I will serve by living a triumphant program.

~ JAR ~

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