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Sunday, October 19, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
To Abstain Is to Live
If we do not abstain from compulsive overeating, we do not live - we merely survive. Without abstinence, joy and creativity fade and we are left with only the effort of getting from one day to the next. We remember the despair of living without the OA program, and we are grateful that we have been given a reprieve from our former misery.
Abstaining is what we do each day in order to live the life our Higher Power intends us to have. There are good days and bad days and mediocre days. As long as we abstain from compulsive overeating, we are able to accept our passing moods and the events of each day with inner serenity. We make progress in our activities and in our understanding. We are alive to the possibilities of each moment.
To abstain requires that we choose a long-term satisfaction rather than a short-lived indulgence. To abstain is to walk with our Higher Power in the way He shows us.
Thank You for the power to abstain.
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When I use other things to obtain from eating, other than going to my God and asking for His Strength and Courage, I am often depending on other things like our favourite TV show, a new book, and old book that once gave us that feel good feeling, a new movie, our significant other, our children, our job, and the list can go on and on. There is nothing wrong with having these things in our life, but it our mental attitude toward them, and are we using them to escape our reality and is our disease and are we acting out in our disease.