Food for Thought: January 12th

Gratitude

I am grateful to have found OA. Without it, I would still be floundering in despair. I would still be alone, without understanding friends, without purpose, and without hope.

I am grateful to be abstaining just for today. I do not have to worry about tomorrow, because if I live well today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

I am grateful for a new life, for new strength growing out of old weakness.

When I am full of gratitude, there is no room left for anger, envy, fear, or hatred. Nor is there room for pride, since when I am grateful I am humbly aware of my dependence on my Higher Power. Being filled with gratitude is ever so much better than being filled with food!

May I gratefully abstain today and every day.

From Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters by Elisabeth L. ©1980, 1992 by Hazelden Foundation.

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I am extremely grateful for my abstinence today. I was able to wake up and thank God for another day of abstinence, sobriety & no smoking. I will stay on track today with my Life Plan so that I can lay my head down tonight, thanking God for the very same, and again tomorrow morning.

For today, I am grateful to feel an inner peace which managed to elude me for most of my life while I was actively practicing addictive behaviors.  I blotted out the peace from my soul in the process.

For today, I am grateful to be alive, to be strong, to be addiction free and to be going shopping to the mall with my daughter.  I will not spend an excessive amount of money today, either, or I will be disliking myself tonight........................

For today, I'm simply grateful.