For Today: June 5th

For Today:  June 5^th

It is indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana

Nowhere in my life has my Higher Power been more evident than in relieving me of compulsive overeating, in giving me the OA program of recovery.   If I was not a believer when I came to OA, I am a believer now. I was, and still am, powerless over food.

I came to OA with just enough hope to try, there was nowhere else to go, nothing left to do. I gave up my will and was relieved of obsession. Today, I  trust more than I did yesterday, and I will trust more tomorrow than I do today.

For Today: How grateful I am for the concept of God as I understand God. Only with faith in a Power greater than myself am I not afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to be happy.

Rock bottom is a place of despair & hopelessness…..the point I had reached when I came to OA & found 

abstinence. I had nothing left to lose by then, as I had tried everything on earth to lose weight & I could never keep it off.

OA was my last chance.

Only when I was willing to give up MY way & to admit my powerlessness over food was I able to find & hold onto abstinence.

I can’t do this alone. I need God’s help & guidance, I need support from my fellow compulsive overeaters, and I need a food plan to keep me on track.

To say that OA has been a miracle for me is a gross understatement.  My obsession with food has been relieved by God & He has enabled me to stay committed, one day at a time, to my food plan.  That very food plan is what helped me find sanity & balance in my otherwise chaotic world where I demanded perfection from myself.

For today, I am thankful for OA, for my Higher Power, and for a program that’s given me my life back.