For Today: March 13th

For Today: March 13^th

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt

Logic is all very well for the world’s business, but it has little to do with living. Life defies logic. Figuring out has no place in growth. Reasons and rationalizations are what I used to indulge my disease of compulsive overeating.

Today I rely on intuitive feelings—not to be confused with self-centered emotions such as anger and jealous—to tell me about things outside myself. What does a newcomer need to hear? How is an old friend doing? What words do I say to someone in trouble? What need can I fill? Intuition goes far beyond words; it comes from compassionate perception, which is one of those gifts from my Higher Power that increase as I pass them on.

For Today: I trust an intuitive feeling, rather than weigh and measure facts and sides.

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I feel that my intuitive inclinations are growing by leaps & bounds since I re-connected with my Higher Power!   When I go with my gut, I feel that God is directing me…..that I am being led to an answer to whatever  question presents itself.  When I ask for an answer, it is given to me.  While I don’t hear a voice nor am I able to touch something concrete, I can TRUST my gut because it doesn’t lie to me.

This is my definition of Spirituality.

Spirituality differs from religion; religious organizations tell a person what to do, what to feel, what to believe. Followers are told what they must DO in order to receive God’s grace.

In my mind, being ALIVE entitles me to receive God’s grace.  Unconditional love of the purest kind is what God offers me. 

I have come to the conclusion that I am a spiritual being living a human experience, rather than a human being living a spiritual experience.

When I get in touch with that spirituality that IS within me, a whole new world opens up.  Things that I once thought were impossible to achieve become entirely possible! There  is no limit to my growth, no limit to my happiness, no limitations on what I can do!

Spirituality has nothing to do with logic. I am the most sensible person on earth but that hasn’t helped me one bit with the addictive behavior I’ve tried to fight off for 40 years.

I can read every book ever written about weight loss. I can create complicated graphs & charts, I can buy fancy scales & count my calories down to the gram, but I won’t find ‘the answer’ to my issues by using those methods.

Only God will give me the answers I seek. Only by letting go of MY way and surrendering myself to HIS will have I found the peace & release from compulsive overeating I searched for, for years, in vain.

For today, I pray to forget everything I ‘know’ and rely on what I feel instead.

For today, I pray to hear God’s message to me, and to find it wherever I look.

For today, I pray to recognize God’s  love in others, in myself, and in the messages I deliver to everyone who crosses my path.

For today, I pray to know that my Higher Power exists wherever I seek to find Him. In the branch of a tree as well as high atop a mountain peak.