You can pray a lie.
Mark Twain
Just as it is impossible to deceive that part of me that keeps a running tally of my misdeeds, so is it impossible to deceive God.
The OA meetings, the one-to-one sharing helps me to see myself with honesty. As I become more accepting of them, seeing them as human failings, not unpardonable sins. If I can talk about them, I can pray to have them removed. Keeping my shortcomings covered up stops growth dead in its tracks. Honesty rids my life of illusion, rationalization and self-justification. It looks and discovers and accepts.
For Today: Just as truth freed me of my obsession with food, so it can free me of other living problems. I am not afraid to seek the truth.
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People are so quick to point out my faults and imperfections, especially my loved ones. I wonder how to discern 'the truth' from 'opinion'? If I were all the things I've been told I am, I may as well lock myself up in jail or a rubber room and stay there.
For today, I pray for God to help me seek out the TRUTH about myself and not automatically accept someone else's OPINION of me as FACT.
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