Thanksgiving and OAs
Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to practice OAs on friends or family. For some people it may also be a time when OA-ing people is very challenging.
Do you anticipate being able to OA people this Thanksgiving or are you expecting all your emotional resources to be used up just getting through the holiday?
We’d love to hear any thoughts you have about OAs and Thanksgiving before or after the holiday (not during – that’s the time to be practising your OAs!) Please be appropriately discreet and respectful if what you are sharing involves other people.
November 22nd, 2006 · 4 Comments
Categories: OA Stories
April Terry said
am November 22 2006 @ 9:22 am
From the time that I crested into adulthood, Thanksgiving became a time for me to invite people who didn’t have a family to go on Thanksgiving. My mom was always a little annoyed by that (LOL!)
This year, though, I am having nearly my entire family at my new home for Thanksgiving and strangely enough, it ws my mother who invited three people who had no place to go! In fact, it is a family of three who are going through marital and emotional problems.
In answer to your question, yes. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to minister to those who don’t have family to go to. It is also a wonderful time to bring faith to the dinner table among all types of people.
I pray that my home will be a place of healing and peace this coming holiday.
Helen said
am November 22 2006 @ 11:53 am
April, I have so much respect for people who do that (invite someone to their home who have nowhere to go).
I visited the elderly woman in a nursing home who I sometimes visit on Monday and she said that a woman from my ex-church (who I know has put a lot of effort into doing a number of kind things for her) is picking her up in the morning on Thanksgiving to be with her family all day.
I was so happy to hear that.
April, I love how you provided a place for people with nowhere to go and now your Mom is following your example! How cool is that.
Jim Henderson said
am November 22 2006 @ 4:06 pm
I just try and get thru Thanksgiving so I when it comes to holidays I am essentially an OA failure (although in OA land it is impossible to fail
Helen said
am November 22 2006 @ 7:38 pm
Jim, I hope you get through Thanksgiving fine.
Who knows – maybe you’ll accidentally OA a few people along the way