For Today: September 18th

No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Fear wears many masks.  It is what often lies behind my facade of silent scorn, passive refusal, a half-dead state of no feeling.  I can wrap the cloak of fear around me and say No.  No, I will not go.  No, I have nothing to say.  No, I can't do it.

I can remain locked away,l or I can reach out, take action.   Action can change my outlook, break through the fear.  As I do the footwork, I regain contact with my Higher Power and, with God's help, come back to life. 

Yes, I will share at the meeting.  Yes, I will go to the children's school party.  Yes, I will give thanks to God for my release from the bondage of fear.

For Today:  The courage to reach past my fear is within me, but in this Fellowship, I do not have to make the trip alone.

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One of Eleanor Roosevelt's most famous quotes is, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

When I was compulsively overeating & bogged down with my addiction, I was afraid of everything. Fear paralyzed me & prevented me from living a full life, as God intended me to do.  I never wanted to leave the house or do fun things......I just wanted to isolate and eat, watch TV, sleep late, and procrastinate my life away. 

Getting involved with other OAs like myself has opened up a whole new world for me. OA has enabled me to realize that, with God's help, and with the help and support of the Fellowship, I can do ANYTHING, one day at a time.