For Today: December 13th

Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found,

Was blind, but now I see.

John Newton

Nothing could better describe what so many of us in OA feel than the words of “Amazing Grace.”  For us, however, the experience is not a religious but a spiritual one.

Whatever our religious beliefs, or non-beliefs, spiritual recovery is felt as a profound inner change; a dissolving of the attitudes and opinions that kept us chained to compulsion.

Spiritual awakening heals us of self-willed blindness to the truth about ourselves and our condition.  We are no longer wandering, alone and lost.  We are found.

For Today:  That people so deep in the clutches of compulsive illness can recover is truly evidence of Amazing Grace.

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When I came to OA, I had hit rock bottom.  I thank God for that fact, because rock-bottom was where I needed to be in order to accept the terms of the program.

Dieting chronically for 40 years had taken its toll on me, physically, mentally & spiritually. I was lost.......my disease of compulsive overeating had ruined the quality of my life & I had no idea what to do.  

When I read Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over food---that our lives had become unmanageable..........I felt a huge sense of relief wash over me.  Yes, I was powerless over food and my life had become unmanageable! 

Finally! Finally I could give up control of a situation I was powerless to control!!

I committed to The Food Plan of abstinence and my life finally began, at the age of 50..........and after 40 years of riding the diet roller-coaster.

Amazing Grace doesn't begin to describe the experience I've been rewarded with here in OA. 

I once was lost, but now am found,

Was blind, but now I see.

Now that food is no longer in charge of my life, God is, because I've allowed Him to be. 

There is not one moment of my life when I'm not grateful for this amazing program of recovery.