Homesickness
There are certain foods, which we will always associate with home and which make us nostalgic to recapture the past. No matter how much we eat, we cannot go back home and again be the babies and little children we were. No food will satisfy our longing for the love, care, and safety most of us associate with home. Even (and especially) if our dependency needs were not met when we were young, eating unnecessary food now will not help.
As we grow in relationship with our Higher Power, we begin to believe that home lies ahead, rather than behind us. We begin to see that our homesickness is for a spiritual state instead of a physical place. Wherever we are, we are pilgrims and travelers, not sure of our final destination but drawn toward something more than what we know in this world. We sense that though we are in the world, we are not of it, that we are homesick for a spiritual fulfillment.
May our homesickness bring us closer to You.
From Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters by Elisabeth L.
©1980There are certain foods, which we will always associate with home and which make us nostalgic to recapture the past. No matter how much we eat, we cannot go back home and again be the babies and little children we were. No food will satisfy our longing for the love, care, and safety most of us associate with home. Even (and especially) if our dependency needs were not met when we were young, eating unnecessary food now will not help.
As we grow in relationship with our Higher Power, we begin to believe that home lies ahead, rather than behind us. We begin to see that our homesickness is for a spiritual state instead of a physical place. Wherever we are, we are pilgrims and travelers, not sure of our final destination but drawn toward something more than what we know in this world. We sense that though we are in the world, we are not of it, that we are homesick for a spiritual fulfillment.
May our homesickness bring us closer to You.
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I can't go back home & be the child I once was; I can't recapture time when life was oh-so-simple and mother was in charge of my care. Nor do I WANT to, frankly..........
As my relationship with God has grown stronger over the years of recovery, I realize that home DOES lie ahead, rather than behind me. My final destination is a state of spirituality where my body is no longer a part of me.
To have spent SUCH a long time dwelling ON my body makes me sad. I am not my body; I am my soul and my spirit, my capacity for love and caring, my ability to give TO my fellowman.
For today, I will let go of the obsession with my physical state of being and focus on my spiritual condition instead.
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