Food For Thought-daily meditations 8-05

[Pony]

Future Phobia


Irrational worry about the future may have triggered wating binges before we found the OA program. Learning to love 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 that God's continuing care and aupport. To entertain irrational worries about what might or moght 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 that it is right now. There are problems and disappoinments 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.
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May faith in You blot out fear.

[Pony]

Boy can I relate to this one. I have had alot of fear associated with losing the weight. Fear of still not being good enough. Fear of still not looking good enough. Fear of the possibility of someone finding me attractive but just out to take advantage of me and my vulnerability to attention.

This has been one of my biggest struggles to staying on track with my goals.