Be Not Anxious
If we are conscientiously working the OA program, we may leave the results to our Higher Power. To worry is to insult God. When we admit that we are powerless over food and that our lives have become unmanageable, we can then ask for and receive strength and power beyond ourselves. When we turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him, we are free to live without anxiety.
At first, we are awkward. We turn over our problems and anxieties one minute and take them back the next. We forget that the Twelve Step program has worked for countless other compulsive people--alcoholics and drug addicts as well as overeaters. Doubting God's strength, we fall back on our own weakness, and the result is trouble.
Through our contacts with OA members, we can see lives changed and people made new in body, mind, and spirit. These examples are convincing testimony to the efficiency of our Higher Power. The more we trust His will for us, the more He is able to work miracles in our lives.
Take my anxieties, Lord. I pray that Thy will may be done.
If we are conscientiously working the OA program, we may leave the results to our Higher Power. To worry is to insult God. When we admit that we are powerless over food and that our lives have become unmanageable, we can then ask for and receive strength and power beyond ourselves. When we turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him, we are free to live without anxiety.
At first, we are awkward. We turn over our problems and anxieties one minute and take them back the next. We forget that the Twelve Step program has worked for countless other compulsive people--alcoholics and drug addicts as well as overeaters. Doubting God's strength, we fall back on our own weakness, and the result is trouble.
Through our contacts with OA members, we can see lives changed and people made new in body, mind, and spirit. These examples are convincing testimony to the efficiency of our Higher Power. The more we trust His will for us, the more He is able to work miracles in our lives.
Take my anxieties, Lord. I pray that Thy will may be done.
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I always felt it was my JOB to worry & feel anxiety.............how could I possibly turn things over to God to take care of? I was in charge of running the world!
Admitting powerlessness enables me to let GO of the notion that I'm in charge of the world.......because I'm not. My efforts to control everyone & everything brought me to my knees with addiction running my life...............my efforts to enjoy freedom wound up enslaving me instead.
True freedom comes from surrender.
For today, I surrender my life to God and allow Him to be large & in charge. I do the footwork, and leave the rest to Him.
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