I
rejoined our meeting on Tuesdays and for one reason or another, there
seemed to be little recovery. There were only three of us left who did
have good recoveries going on with a will to continue. We decided by
group conscience to change our meeting to a Recovery Status only by
working the 12 Steps only. We decided on a 12 step booklet that asked
piercing questions – questions of us that none of us would even think
to ask of ourselves. We made a one year committment to work the steps
no matter how many people attended. We were not concerned with quantity
as we were with our own necessity for working the 12 steps.

It
is now almost a 1 ½ years since we made that decision. Our group is a
mature adult group, devoted to recovery only. We sometimes can only do
one question in our 1 ½ hour meeting because everyone shares. Our
meeting has no volunteer sharing. The question is read by everyone in
turn and all share on the same question. Of course, anyone may pass.
Usually, no one does.

I could never think about changing my home
group meeting. My joy comes from my own recovery and that of the
participants when I see their own recoveries.

I am very grateful for what I have learned about myself through CODA.

I have a spirituality that I never had before. I am eternally grateful.