Recovery Meditations: October 21st

Ready

“If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

Ivan Turgenev

This was one of my biggest obstacles in recovery: I wanted everything to be perfect. This type of thinking kept me stuck for many years in the disease. Instead of my program being One Day At A Time, it was always "one day later and I will do your will God."

Now I know that today is all I have. I have no guarantees for tomorrow. So I let go and let God, and do the best I can. I have discovered that I do not have to work a perfect program. Not everything has to be just “right.”

One day at a time...
One day at a time I do the footwork that is required of me and leave the results to God.

~ Terri

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There is no perfect day to begin a Food Plan of abstinence. I can wait until "Monday", but that's just an excuse to eat 'in peace' (as if there IS such a thing!) today.

I have more broken Monday's & New Years Resolutions under my belt than you can possibly imagine.

All I have that is real is today. And for today, I will remain abstinent instead of making excuses about why I 'deserve' to eat today & being 'fresh' tomorrow.

Today is a day that will NOT be wasted with empty promises about tomorrow.