Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzche
Compulsive overeaters recovering in OA have reason to believe in the power of hope. It is the saving grace of our illness, a life-sustaining force that motivates us to keep going. Hope brought me to Overeaters Anonymous. I needed to believe that I had within me the power to change, to grow.
The joy of life today is in the constant flowering of hope. A problem is solved and immediately there is hope that an even tougher one will go the same way. When I most despair of finding a solution, the answer appears.
For Today: There is powerful hope in admitting defeat, in giving up my mad exertions to control situations that are not mine to control.
Without hope, how can I recover? OA puts hope back into my soul.............and allows me to believe in myself again.
Admitting powerlessness restores my power; admitting defeat relieves me of the burden of finding yet another new diet to fix me.
God will do for me what I cannot do for myself: He will restore me to sanity when I agree to do the footwork by staying abstinent and working the steps.
Listening to my fellow sufferers reminds me that I am not alone with my disease of compulsive overeating. If others can find recovery, so can I.
And, if I can find recovery, so can you.
This is Hope.
When OAs share their experience, strength and hope, a magical thing happens: we begin to believe in ourselves again, and in the power of recovery through abstinence.
Good actions create good thoughts; not the other way around. When I do it is when I start to feel it.
Good actions on my part restores HOPE in my heart.
One day at a time, I make progress toward being the kind of person I've always dreamed of being.
One day at a time, hope strengthens and sustains me.
One day at a time, I strive to be all I can be.
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