For Today: July 5th

If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come home a horse.

Thomas Fuller

Going somewhere else has great appeal for many who are addicted to too much of a good thing.  This is known as “geographic cure,” although those who use this term are well aware that a “geographic” cures nothing; it is just another escape.  Escapes simply compound addiction.  If I want abstinence, peace of mind and physical wellbeing, what I need is to stay put, go to as many OA meetings as I can and ask for help.

For Today: God grant me the wisdom to understand my longings and the willingness to act in my own best interest.

I have taken many ‘geographic cures’ myself over the past 40 years; I’ve moved 22 times in fact. The truth is, I brought myself with me wherever I went and that means I brought along my addictions as well.

There is no ‘escape’ from life…..to use food or substances as a means of escape is to cut my life short & to ruin the quality of it at the same time.  A family friend died yesterday, 2 days short of her 44^th birthday, because she was unable to give up her addictions & they ultimately killed her.  In her effort to ‘escape’ real life, she wound up killing herself, albeit unintentionally, and it strikes me very sad. That could have been ME, quite easily.

I thank God & OA for re-directing my life & thereby extending it AND greatly improving the quality of it at the same time.

For today, I am thankful for abstinence, peace of mind, physical wellbeing AND the absence of wander-lust!! I can stay right where I am AND enjoy my life & my sobriety, one day at a time.