Information regarding "The BLAST"
"The BLAST" news update of the Brandywine Intergroup is sent out once a month. It is meant to precede the monthly Intergroup meeting which is held on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Submissions forThe BLAST must be received no later than one week BEFORE the Intergroup meeting. Please send all submissions to: theblastfrombrandywine@gmail.com
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Tools of the OA:
Plan of eating, Sponsorship, Meetings, Telephone, Writing, Literature, Action Plan, Anonymity, Service
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Chair's Message
I remember an incident a few years ago, I was late for my meeting and hurriedly getting dressed in the bathroom. Unlike most families, we have a cockatiel who lives in our bathroom. We hadn't yet killed him with fumes. As I was closing the door, I realized the cat (who loves tasty bird) was still in the bathroom and would probably topple the cage and ... gonzo bird.
I chased that cat and couldn't grab him and was really getting frustrated. Then the thought came: "TAKE THE CAGE OUT OF THE BATHROOM AND LEAVE THE CAT THERE!."
This seemed a rather simple solution and what I have learned in this program Is that simplicity, calm, letting go and acceptance all enable me to have my Higher Power God's will be revealed. God has shown me so many times how creative his ideas are.
I have tried to look at a resentment from an entirely different angle, a bit like what happened here. I didn't stay in the problem and squander time losing out on my day. To be free I had to be free of anger and frustration and not do the DEEP DWELL; rather, to think perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps it isn't about what I think it's about.
Yours in recovery,
Irene
🌻OFFICERS🌻
Chair: Irene C
Vice-Chair: Louisa
Treasurer: Laura W
Recording Secretary: Linda R
Corresponding Secretary: Nancy M
Region 7 Delegates: Jane S, Mary Francis, Irene C. Nancy M will rotate in spring, 2020 when Mary Francis rotates out.
WSBC delegates: Bob B and Marilyn; Mary Francis-alternate
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Brandywine Intergroup Meeting – 2nd Saturday,10am-11:30am
Paoli, PA 19301
255 West Lancaster Avenue Board Room 206
Paoli Hospital Board Room
A speaker meeting follows the intergroup meeting from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. All are welcome! (Bring a brown bag lunch.)
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Do you or does your meeting have a voice? If no one from your group attends Intergroup meetings, you have no OA voice outside of your group. All are welcome to attend to check it out. Please consider being a representative for your group if no one is currently in that role.
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👇 BRANDYINE INTERGROUP NEEDS YOU 👇
Important Service Opportunity: People to serve on our important PIPO (Public Information, Professional Outreach) Committee. Need someone to lead PIPO for Chester County area. For more information contact Sandy: 610-742-2566
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Professional Outreach Committee of BIG
The purpose of the POC is to carry the message of recovery to hospitals, treatment centers, correctional facilities, religious organizations, schools, libraries, corporations, and civilian and military professional communities while adhering to the principles in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.
The first goal of the committee is to enlist committed volunteers who could be available for any of the following: (a) panel presentations; (b) health fairs; (c) professional trade shows;
(d) temporary sponsors or mail sponsors (e) presentations to audiences that would have an interest in what Overeaters Anonymous has to offer their clients or patients. This committee is best represented by members who are in recovery and have a working knowledge of the Steps, Traditions, OA service structure and OA literature.
If you have a vision or a passion for this sort of outreach or if you have any questions about serving on the committee, please contact Mary Frances W. at 302-753-3767 and share your contact information with her. BIG would love to have a mighty committee that can brain storm on how to get this train running!
Thank you,
Mary Frances
PS. You do not have to be an intergroup representative to serve on this (or any) committee for the Brandywine Intergroup.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE
The 12th Step Within committee will be holding a “Mindfulness & Meditation” workshop on Saturday, October 26th.
More details as they become available.
NEW 15 SESSION WORKSHOP ON ALL 12 STEPS
Beginning on Friday, October 11th, there will be a 15 week workshop on all 12 Steps.
This workshop will take place at the King of Prussia Church of Christ from 9:30 t0 11:30 am.3
More details may be found on the attached flyer.
Overeaters Anonymous Workshop
on the Twelve Steps
A15-session workshop designed to help participants
achieve and maintain abstinence through
working all Twelve Steps
October 11, 2019 - January24,2020
Fridays, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
October 11 is theIntroductory Session
The following QA-approved literature will be used in the workshop sessions and homework assignments (Participants need their own copies.):
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition (the big book)
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions by AA, (3rd edition)
Voices of Recovery,
For Today
Workshop Location:
*King of Prussia Church of Christ,
590 W. Valley Forge Rd. King of Prussia, PA 19406
NOT handicapped accessible (second floor)
Questions? Contact June D.610-247-4398
This is a closed workshop for 4 to12 participants. No new members may join after the IntroductorySession.
Participants commit to attend and fully participate in all sessions.
More to come (flyers,see below):
PAIG (Philadelphia Intergroup) Retreat, Saturday/Sunday September 27 & 28, Malvern
Region 7 Retreat, November 1-3,
Ocean City Maryland (hotel right on the beach!)
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Thank You!
The Board would like to thank the following meetings which made financial contributions in the past few months:
Saturday - BIG Speaker
Sunday - West Chester
Monday - Collegeville
Wednesday - Devon
Friday - Valley Forge
Saturday - Amber
Saturday Downingtown
Saturday - Havertown
Thanks also for extra contributions to BIG Delegate Fund to send delegates to WSO:
Monday West Chester
Wednesday Devon
Saturday Amber
Please give to keep our Fellowship thriving.
Automatic Recurring Contribution (ARC) is available for our World Service Office here.
(https://www.oa.org/files/pdf/seventhtradition.pdf)
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Brandywine Intergroup Website: www.brandywineintergroup.org
For submissions to Recovery, send by the 20th of the month prior if possible: brandywineintergroup@gmail.com
Please share your news, experience, strength, and hope.
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OA SLOGANS
Holding a Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Expectations = Resentments under construction
Release what does not bless you
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Step 9 is "remembering the principles of forgiveness and love for others, and that the focus of the amends should be on one’s own role and behavior, being specific and actually making amends and changes..."
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"Step 10 is the most important Step of all - my sponsor told me that it's how I would learn to live in the 12 Steps and in recovery.”
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Serenity is a feeling of stability within.
God give me the serenity to change the things I can.
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Recovery by any name is still recovery.
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