For Today: February 7th

 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

The Bible:  I Corinthians

A man who is maintaining a large weight loss and is abstinent and sober in both OA and AA tells how he came to accept the gift of abstinence.  Finding his way to OA after he became sober in AA, he was dismayed at being the only man in a roomful of women.  “I didn’t hear what  they were saying,” he admits.  “I secretly ridiculed them for not understanding what the program is about.”

“One day, one of the women I was especially critical of got up and shared about the need to detach herself from one of her children, who had a drug problem.  That was exactly the situation my wife and I were facing.  What that woman said showed me I hadn’t been working my AA program half as well as she’d been working hers. I made my amends to the whole group, took a sponsor and became abstinent.”

For Today:  I listen to all who speak at meetings because I can never know in advance when someone will say just what I need to hear.

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At meetings, or when speaking with fellow compulsive overeaters, I can always relate to something someone is saying, and vice versa.  When I share my experience, strength and hope with a fellow sufferer, I benefit as well.

When I isolate myself, I think I'm all alone with my problem and that nobody understands me.  I am not a normal eater & can't expect anyone else BUT another compulsive overeater TO understand me.  So, why isolate myself from like-minded people?  There is power in numbers, and there is recovery in sharing.

Everyone has something useful to say, no matter how 'unimportant' they may feel. For today, I choose to learn something from everyone I speak with! No one is insignificant........and, in God's economy, nothing is wasted.