For Today: December 3rd

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

The Bible: Psalms

I go to meetings because it is where I feel at home.  Here I meet friends, join in warm conversation and express my feelings.  Here I am accepted.  OA seemed strange to me in the beginning, but people reached out and said, “You never have to take another compulsive bite again,” and I believed them.  They listened when I talked, comforted me when I was distressed, cheered my newfound abstinence.  Before long, I was seeking out newcomers to welcome them as I had been welcomed, to listen with patience and understanding.

Yes, I am at one with my sisters and brothers.

For Today:  Thank God for OA meetings, where compulsive overeaters don’t have to explain or defend or try to be something they’re not---they just share themselves as they are.

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The disease of compulsive overeating tends to make me feel alone and isolated; more comfortable with a book and a bag of chips than sharing myself with others.  OA meetings give me an outlet......a place to go where I feel accepted because I am accepted.  I no longer feel all alone with my disease because I know there are lots of other people in the same boat as I am.

With my fellow compulsive overeaters, I am free to be me.  I don't have to put on airs or a happy face to insure that others like me.  My fellow OAs like me for who and what I am, period.  I don't have to make believe.......I don't have to perpetuate a false front..........I just have to share my struggles & my triumphs!

What a deal!

That old saw, Birds of a feather flock together, is quite true.  Why should I force myself to be alone & isolated when I don't have to?  

For today, I am grateful to have a merry band of ELFs to share my life with. Wink-wink.