NA Convention

[caressa]

You mentioned you were going my friend. How was it. Conferences are amazing. I call the one I go to every year as my filling up station.

I go to the 'Autumn Leaf Roundup' in Hamilton in September and have done so since I came into recovery. I missed one year because I was sick and another year, I gave my ticket to a newcomer the second day because I wasn't feeling good.

When Hamilton hosted the NA convention a few years ago I gave my ticket to a newcomer. I was on the committee but had to leave because of my health.

Are you referring to the Camp Out at Alora Gorge or do you have another site near Toronto?

[stickmonkey]

it was in Gwelf,or however you spell it.
It was like 1000 addicts.

[caressa]

Not sure if Alora Gorge is near Guelph or not, I know that the young people here go. My body is too old for camping.

It is a great spiritual place when you get us all together isn't it?

[stickmonkey]

It can be.
I guess it is in what we are allowing to happen to us.
I had 2 sponsees there that came away with diferant experiences.
One was positive and one was negative.
Depends on how spiritualy centered we are.

[caressa]

Spirituality means different things to different folk. When I was new, I thought I knew what it meant, but didn't have a clue. One of the greatest gifts given to me in sobriety was a girl coming up to me on the street and say, "I know you, you are that spiritual lady from the rooms." When I was five years clean and sober, I got asked by a counsellor in a treatment center to speak on spirituality in recovery. I thought it was a meeting, it was an inhouse group on spirituality. A long way from the religious upbringing I had. Spirituality enhances my religious beliefs. My religious beliefs enhance my spirituality, they are two seperate things.