For Today: August 31st

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.

George Santayana

Hope and hopelessness are part of my disease.  Hope tells me there is a better way; hopelessness says, “What’s the use?” I recognize hopelessness for what it is:  my mind preventing me from disappointment.  Hopelessness served at the time, but I don’t need that device today.  I have a Higher Power that gives me everything I need. I am willing to continue to cast out old ideas, to keep turning my life over to the care and protection of God.  Therein lies hope.

For Today:  My potential is in direct proportion to my willingness to let go the shackles of self-will, to get out of my own way.  On one end of the scale, I accomplish wonders; on the other, I am powerless.

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~ HOPE ~

Hope is the feeling you have
that the feeling you have isn't permanent.


Jean Kerr

I pray for hope today, and I am receiving hope today. Hope is something that comes more and more readily to me as I stay abstinent and continue working my program of recovery.

In the past, many of my feelings of hope were centered around the next diet or the next fix for my bingeing. However, now that I am abstaining and practicing the Twelve Steps, I have been freed to hope for bigger things. There is now space in my head where the food and diet obsession used to be!

One Day at a Time . . .

I will abstain. One day at a time I will direct my attention to the Steps when I am in need of a solution.

~ Christine ~