The Language of Letting Go: April 25th

Finding Our Own Truth

We must each discover our own truth.

It does not help us if those we love find their truth. They cannot give it to us. It does not help if someone we love knows a particular truth in our life. We must discover our truth for ourselves.

We must each discover and stand in our own light.

We often need to struggle, fail, and be confused and frustrated. That's how we break through our struggle; that's how we learn what is true and right for ourselves.

We can share information with others. Others can tell us what may predictably happen if we pursue a particular course. But it will not mean anything until we integrate the message and it becomes our truth, our discovery, and our knowledge.

There is no easy way to break through and find our truth.

But we can and will, if we want to.

We may want to make it easier. We may nervously run to friends, asking them to give us their truth or make our discovery easier. They cannot. Light will shed itself in its own time.

Each of us has our own share of truth, waiting to reveal itself to us. Each of us has our own share of the light, waiting for us to stand in it, to claim it as ours.

Encouragement helps. Support helps. A firm belief that each person has truth available - appropriate to each situation - is what will help.

Each experience, each frustration, each situation, has its own truth waiting to be revealed. Don't give up until you find it - for yourself.

We shall be guided into truth, if we are seeking it. We are not alone.

Today, I will search for my own truth, and I will allow others to do the same. I will place value on my vision and the vision of others. We are each on the journey, making our own discoveries - the ones that are right for us today.

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How true is this?  I can search high & low for 'answers'..........but I must find the truth MYSELF.  Nobody can find it for me, as MY truth varies from YOUR truth.

In reality, compulsive overeating is nothing but a web of lies, trying to lure me in with the promise of comfort.  That's the LIE.

The truth is: there is far more comfort in sticking to my food plan than there ever was in overeating.

Self-loathing prevails when I abandon my food plan for the temporary euphoria that comes along with unrestricted eating.

I cannot make YOU believe that, any more than YOU could have made ME believe that prior to finding abstinence.

We search out, and find, our own truths, and allow others to do the same.  This journey is peppered with ruts and smooth patches, and every day brings another truth to be discovered.

If we keep an open mind & heart, the truth will make itself known, one day at a time.