For Today: January 27th

If we find nothing of interest where we are, we are likely to find little of lasting interest where we wish to go.

Edwin Way Teale

It is better over there---more action at that table, that group, that city, that country.  Ah, if only I were there I’d feel better.

What an old idea!  Where I live is inside; nothing on the outside changes that.  Yes, I can find a distraction, a place to escape.  But it won’t last.  Time now to look within; take an inventory, make an amends, a twelfth-step call.  Wherever I go, Tibet or Timbuktoo, Mt. Everest or the moon, I take myself with me.

Do I like the company?

For Today:   Through this program, I am regaining the zest and enthusiasm for life that is my birthright.

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Wherever I go, there I am.

God knows, I’ve looked for geographical cures over the years.  Every time I moved away, I took myself with me, along with all my problems and compulsive overeating habits.  I’d wake up one day, in a new location, and hear myself utter “now what?”

Moving away doesn't erase my problems.  In many ways, it exacerbates them.  Now I'm in a new place with all NEW problems AND old problems BOTH!

Change comes from within. Until I was ready to face my demons head-on, I was doomed to keep trying to run away from them.  And, like a hamster on a wheel, I ran and ran but never got anywhere.   I couldn't  'arrive' at my destination until I determined where that destination WAS: inside of ME all along.

For today, I choose to live in the truth and serenity of recovery, which has been my true destination all along.