Food for Thought for Over Eaters Anonymous

[MajestyJo]

Thought for the Day

Saturday, MAR25

From the book: Food for Thought

Living Day by Day

"Life by the mile is a trial; by the inch it's a cinch." In the past, we got into trouble when we thought we had to have our lives mapped out forever. That just did not work.

We need only deal with the problems and joys of today. If we try to see too far ahead, we lose touch with the reality of the here and now. The Lord lets us know what we need to know when we need to know it.

What seems impossible when looked at in total --writing a book, putting the children through college, abstaining for the rest of our lives -- becomes manageable when worked at step-by-step, day-by-day.

So many of the things we worry about never happen. How much better it is to concentrate our energies on the real demands and challenges of today, insignificant as they may seem. When we turn our lives over to our Higher Power, we trust Him to manage the master plan and to direct us in the small details of living each day.

Show me, Lord, how to best live each day. I leave the years to You.

Like the first paragraph. Sometimes those little cliches are easier to remember and we can use them to remind ourselves that this is a one day at a time program. The key word for me is live. Live in today, live my life, and let go of yesterday and stay in today.

Hope you don't mind the pig images, they are a JoAnne thing. I love them and I remind myself of them quite often, especially when I am swollen and I look at it as fat.