Today's Reading - Voices of Recovery

"Our job is to be willing to let go of old attitudes which block humility, such as low self-esteem, status-seeking, and self-righteousness." OA 12 & 12 p. 62 When I joined OA, I heard about the necessity of being humble. I wasn't sure exactly what members meant by "humility," and I certainly wasn't sure I wanted any of it. But one day I heard that to be humble meant to be "teachable." And I thought to myself, "I think I can do that." There were many new things for me to learn in OA: how to look honestly at myself; how to use the tools to work the Twelve Steps; how to deal with old and new resentments; how to practice the Twelve-Step principles in all my affairs. Every day, in one way or another, I am called upon to be teachable. For today, I am willing to give up the old ways, which did not work, for a new way of life, which offers me recovery from my food addiction.