For Today: August 5th

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

The stories of many OA members disclose that the existence of God became real to them only when they experienced surrender and spiritual awakening in this program.  A number of these individuals had always believed in God, and some were active members of religious denominations before coming to OA.

One does not need prior belief, however, to have a spiritual experience. In the OA literature and at meetings, we find atheists and agnostics who describe their surrender of the problem and acceptance of a spiritual solution in the same terms.

Spiritual experience is open to all.  If it does not come immediately, be willing to wait in the knowledge that it will come as a result of working the steps.

For Today:  I believe that this is a program of spiritual recovery and that all I have been able to do thus far is evidence of God as I understand God working in my life.

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Faith; that’s what surrender & commitment to OA involves. Faith that I will look and feel better if I comply with my program of abstinence. Faith that God knows what’s best for me, even BETTER than I do. Faith that happiness & serenity await me on the other side of fear & anguish. 

Everything I’ve accomplished over the past 3 years of abstinence is due to God working in my life; of that fact I have NO doubt.  God was able to do for me what I was unable to do for myself.

Without faith, I would still be obese & unhappy, eating myself into a coma & believing, hopelessly, that there was NO way out for the likes of me.

A spiritual reawakening of this magnitude is life changing..........and mind-boggling, too.  After growing up in the Catholic church, going to parochial school & to mass about 1 million times, I wound up finding God through a program of Recovery; in other words, I found Him when I was ready TO find Him.  And the help & guidance He has given me is priceless.  For that I am so very grateful.