Food for Thought~daily Meditations 12-19

[Pony]

Today's Thought
MONDAY , DECEMBER 19, 2005
You are reading from the book Food for Thought.


Climbing

Eating compulsively was a downhill skid into despair. Recovering is an uphill climb all the way. It is not easy. The line of least resistance is the habit pattern we have built up over past years. Forming new habits is hard work.

We do not stand still. Either we are climbing up step by step into recovery or we are slipping further down into disease. Each decision we make to abstain from the first compulsive bite takes us another rung up the ladder to health. Each time we refrain from anger, worry, or false pride, we grow emotionally. In every instance where we are able to turn our will over to our Higher Power, we gain spiritual strength.

The climb is what makes life challenging and exciting. To retreat into food is to give up and lose the satisfaction of having reached a higher point in our journey. Realizing that we are and always will be compulsive overeaters makes us aware of our continual need to climb out of illness into recovery.

We are climbing, with Your aid.

[Pony]

This is a good one. Good in the way that we need to realize that every choice we make is a step one way or the other. So every time we choose to eat good or not take that bite of something we know is a trigger for us, it is one more step up out of the hole and up to a life with good health.