Recovery Meditations: July 10th

SANITY

"Came to believe ...
That a power greater than ourselves ...
Could restore us to sanity."
Step Two


What a powerful statement! There's a power greater than me. At first glance it seemed so frightening. As I looked at my situation, it seemed impossible ... who or what could be greater than I am? To be "restored" to sanity meant I must be crazy. After all, that is what insanity means. My Higher Power happened to be my sponsor and she was determined enough to be that power, if only until I opened the door to another.

One day when my ears were open and my mouth shut, these words came from another sufferer: "God can." I thought to myself, "What?! What does 'God can' mean?" Later -- when my body was clean and my mind receptive -- those words came to mean a great deal to me. "God can" if I let Him. God can take away my compulsion to overeat. God can remove my desire for nicotine. God can take away my desire for booze. Yes, God can.

I no longer worry about what I can't accomplish because I know that "God can." So now when my day begins I think of what I can do right, and do it for today. That which I cannot do right -- I just let God handle that. We make a pretty good team, God and me.

One Day at a Time . . .
I let my Higher Power restore me to sanity.

~ Danny

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It is the experience of recovering compulsive overeaters that the illness is progressive. The disease does not get better; it gets worse. Even while we abstain, the illness progresses. If we were to break our abstinence, we would find that we had even less control over our eating than before.

Continued abstinence is our only means of health and sanity. We well remember the misery and despair that we felt when we were overeating, and we do not want to feel that way again. Abstaining from one compulsive bite is a small price to pay for health and sanity.

When we find ourselves thinking thoughts, which in the past have preceded loss of control, we need to realize the great danger that lies in a relapse. The OA program has saved us from the destruction of compulsive overeating, but our disease is still alive. Our program needs to be foremost in our minds every day if we are to continue recovering.

For today, I will not take that first compulsive bite, which leads me to relapse. For today, I will not jump back into the pit of despair

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Stop wondering whether or not you can do it. Take persistent, focused action and find out that yes, indeed you can.

Don't let your dreams merely create future regrets. Join in with them to create a beautiful, fulfilling reality.

You are already making the effort to live this life, so make the choice to make it great. Put your energy not into worry or fear or speculation, but into meaningful achievement.

Every moment is an opportunity to make a difference. And today is full of them.

Go ahead, admit that there are things you would truly love to do. Then get busy doing them.

This is your golden opportunity to know how great life can be. Stop wondering about it and start living it.

Ralph Marston - The Daily Motivator