Saturday, September 5th
When they read the Characteristics, I felt like SCA had been looking over my shoulder all my life. Here was a group of people who knew what I had been going through.
We learn the truth of our stories by telling them. First, we discover our needs and feelings; then, we seek ways to express them. When we share at meetings or hear others share, we often identify with a new sensation — a realization that we “have been there before.”
Nobody has a monopoly on wisdom in SCA. We may hear long-time members share their own experience, strength, and hope but might not identify with them. Perhaps a newcomer shares something that immediately makes sense to us. We learn to Take what we like and leave the rest.
Some of us view our Higher Power as the collective wisdom of the group. Such a concept reinforces the importance of the unified community as support for individual recovery. Tradition One states: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon SCA unity.
We keep coming back to meetings because we believe there is a power at meetings greater than our sexual compulsion, a power that offers us sanity, serenity, and sexual sobriety.
I gain strength from my fellow recovering sexual compulsives.