Today's Reading - For Today

"Success can corrupt: usefulness can only exalt." Dimitri Mitropoulos One of the great strengths of Overeaters Anonymous is our usefulness to one another. Just by being present at meetings, we are doing a useful service for our fellow members as well as ourselves. Once we've met the qualifying requirement - a desire to stop eating compulsively - nothing is mandatory in OA. We make no pledges to anyone about anything. What we eat and how much we weigh are not matters to be publicly determined and sworn to; indeed, even practicing the twelve steps is our own affair. Attendance at meetings, however, is a minimal commitment each of us makes to ourselves. If we can do nothing else, we can go to a meeting. For today: The first criterion of usefulness in OA is a member's presence at meetings.