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Posted on February 15, 2016
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Last February 28, about thirty-five OA members joined together at Milwaukee’s Dewey Center to honor the Principle of unity with a candlelight ceremony. All around the world OA members were celebrating Unity Day in their own ways.

Our local Unity Day focused on Principles, Steps, Traditions, and promises. The Milwaukee Area Intergroup provided a setting with a spiral of unlit candles on the floor in the center of the room. (For safety, they were LED candles.)

After members shared briefly what the Principles, Steps, Traditions, or promises meant to them, they lit one of the candles. The sharing was uplifting, the process lovely and very memorable.

— Edited and reprinted from Out of the Cocoon newsletter, Milwaukee Area Intergroup, May/June 2015

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