For Today: April 10th

For Today: April 10^th

Time ripens all things.

No man’s born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Patience does not come easily to the obsessive/compulsive person. I have a tendency to want results now; never mind the need to acquire experience.

Today I follow a path that enriches my life with experience—a path that leads me through feelings that once were too painful to contemplate, and delivers me right side up, trudging forward on my own two feet. As I progress, I have a sharpened awareness of the suffering of others, and I can offer help that is based on honest experience.

When I feel impatient and want to hurry on with growth, to have defects removed before their time, I know that I have more to learn. Everything is in God’s time.

For Today: My Higher Power offers me a way to live free of the obsession with food. I am willing to do today’s footwork and wait for the results.

What OCD person on earth has patience?? That’s the biggest issue on earth for us: the willingness to do the footwork first, and receive the prize second. 

My inner brat tells me I’m greedy. I want what I want when I want it, and I want it now.  That statement describes the compulsive overeater to a tee.

We’re really good at staying on a diet for a certain amount of time; then we’re finished and back to our old ways. And, of course, back to our starting weights or even more.

If I am unable to develop patience, I am unable to achieve the goals I set for myself, no matter what goals they may be.

Rome wasn’t built in a day & I won’t reach my goals overnight.

If I refuse to put in my time & footwork to gain the experience I need, I will be back to my old ways in a New York minute.

The only way out of a dilemma is through it. Faith, commitment & perseverance are the words I must focus on if I am to live my life in a state of peace & harmony.

My life is directed by God, and it’s directed on HIS timetable, not mine. I surrender MY way for God’s way, every day, one day at a time.