For Today:  May 31^st

Honesty is the best policy.

Miguel de Cervantes

Have I ever stopped to think that, without honesty, the Serenity Prayer is just words? How can I accept the things I cannot change, without being willing to find out what they are? And if I don’t identify the things I can change, how can I even begin to change them?

All of this takes self-honesty, because it is I who will write my inventory, give away a fifth step and take the steps that follow.

God grants me the blessings I ask for according to my willingness to be completely honest with myself.

For Today: What are the defects and burdens I want God to relieve me of? Digging them out is not nearly as painful as letting them fester.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things I can;

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Denial prevents me from being honest with myself. Until I made the decision to lose weight & become abstinent, denial was my middle name.

I was the queen of NOT dealing with myself honestly & truthfully.

When I admitted my powerlessness over food & surrendered my life to God's will, I became willing to look at myself honestly & to acknowledge my disease of compulsive overeating.

The words of the Serenity Prayer, or any other prayer for that matter, ARE hollow & meaningless without honesty & self-awareness.  I have many character defects to work on, and I pray for the willingness to keep doing so on an ongoing basis.

For today, I pray to stay honest & truthful with myself, so I can be relieved of my compulsion to overeat and my tendency toward negativity.

For today, I choose to live without those burdens weighing me down, mentally, physically, and spiritually.