From the Chair
Hello my dear fellows,
I pray this newsletter finds you all healthy and home. I know there can be a lot of uncertainty right now but I am certain of a program that works if we work it. I know enough to know that I truly need a Higher Power greater than myself to help me navigate all of this. I know that food will not solve any of my troubles, concerns or fears. I know that when I go to God and surrender to the universe, that HP is always there for me.
One key aspect is staying connected and I am so proud how Mid-Hudson Intergroup and individual fellows step up the plate without reservation to keep meetings going, connected and seeking recovery. All 15 meetings have a connection and even new meetings are springing up from it. The Monday Beacon noon meeting has adopted a second meeting on Thursdays, and there is a new 8 am “For Today” meeting on zoom. All of this and more can be found on our website midhudsonoa.org.
Our spring retreat has been canceled for 2020 and moved to May 21-23, 2021. There are no refunds being given from the Friary so if you have sent in your money then mark your calendars for 2021, you already have a room!
It is amazing to see us all working together and finding new ways to stay connected and recovered. Together we get better!!
I would like to leave you with 2 great readings from For Today based on uncertainty and having everything I need.
August 31 - Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. George Santayana
Hope and hopelessness are part of my disease. Hope tells me there is a better way; hopelessness says, “What’s the use?” I recognize hopelessness for what it is: my mind protecting me from disappointment. Hopelessness served at one time, but I don’t need that device today. I have a Higher Power that gives me everything I need. I am willing to continue to cast out old ideas, to keep turning my life over to the care and protection of God. Therein lies hope.
For today: My potential is in direct proportion to my willingness to let go the shackles of self-will, to get out of my own way. On one end of the scale, I accomplish wonders; on the other, I am powerless.
-Anonymous, Overeaters. For Today
July 29 Renunciation is a piercing virtue The letting go
A presence for an expectation.
Emily Dickinson.
Putting my faith in this program means letting go what I have in the expectation of something better. I must be prepared for moments of confusion and upheaval, feelings of uncertainty and, yes, even fear. However useless or destructive the old may be, it is given up with difficulty. I may be surprised to find that what God wills for me may not necessarily be what I ordered up, as one does from a menu. But I have already seen that everything I turn over to my Higher Power is taken care of far better than I could have imagined.
For today: What I need most to turn over to God is already clear to me.
-Anonymous, Overeaters. For Today.
May you all stay healthy during this unsettled time.
All My Love,
Lori J.
