Making Myself at Home ~ Seven Service
Connecting has been a major issue for me in this process of recovery. Self-flagellating isolation has been the primary source of my spiritual bankruptcy. I am going to try something here. I like the number seven. In my numerological curiosity, the number seven represents perfection and completion, it is the joining of the square and triangle, a pyramid of sorts.
So when I desire to make a group a home group, I want to complete the following tasks I call the Seven Service:
Hand out the tokens seven times
Lead a topic seven times
Chair a meeting seven times
Clean the building seven times
Read the intro literature seven times
Share in the meetings seven times knowing my message
Share my story seven times
I know that ultimately, the change must take place on the inside, and that external activities only provide the opportunity for such development to happen.
Add to this a devotion to prayer, meditation, contacting my sponsor, and others in the network, and an attitude to reach out and give it away to keep it, and I will be making some investment in my ability to connect.
Daily Reprieve 
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