Food for Thought~daily Meditations 08-05

[Pony]

Thought for the Day
Sunday, August 5, 2007
You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Future Phobia

Irrational worry about the future may have triggered eating binges before we found the OA program. Learning to live one day at a time is a necessary part of controlling our disease. Our instinct for security must not be allowed to run riot any more than the other instincts we are learning to control.

Trusting our Higher Power today ensures that we will trust Him tomorrow also. We do not know what the future holds for us, but we are assured of God's continuing care and support. To entertain irrational worries about what might or might not happen is to doubt the Power, which is restoring us to sanity. When we take Step Three without reservations, we give up our crippling anxieties.

We do not expect that life will be a rose garden in the future, any more than it is right now. There are problems and disappointments and pains to deal with. What we do expect is the strength to cope with whatever our Higher Power gives us, realizing that the difficult experiences are often the ones from which we learn the most.

May faith in You blot out fear.

From Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters by Elisabeth L. ©1980, 1992 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

[cali]

Thank you Pony-
I look forward to the daily meditations-
I have found that my SR is my direct link to a living recovery program as far as my eating issues are concerned. Thanks for posting the meditations!

[Pony]

I am glad that you like them. I am sorry that I have been very negligent in getting them posted. All I can say is that I will continue to try to get them on here daily. Well, except for the next three days. I will be out of town.