The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
Nikos Kazantzakis
One of the greatest blessings a compulsive overeater can hope for is a capacity for awe: to be filled with a sense of mingled wonder, gratitude and reverence for that awesome Power in each of us that heals us of suffering no human skill or medicine could touch, and turns around the most wretched of lives.
For those who are so blessed, the first priority of each day is to give thanks.
For Today: I alone was responsible for dieting and losing weight---and then reversing the process. I alone am NOT responsible for being abstinent, thin and free of the symptoms of my disease. This is the great, central, awe-inspiring fact of my life today.
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The program has allowed me the capacity for awe......to be filled with a sense of wonder, gratitude and reverence for the simple things in life.
What could be simpler and more awe-inspiring than abstinence? The ability to stick to a food plan that allows me freedom and relief from compulsive overeating?
Being released from obsession enables me to appreciate my life instead of finding fault with it. I am able to appreciate and love others for who they are, instead of trying to mold them into the people I think they ought to be.
Abstinence allows me to live, one day at a time, without dwelling in fear, negativity and excess.
For today, I am awe stricken by the beauty of this program & I thank God for leading me to it.
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