FOOD FOR THOUGHT- OA/AUGUST 2014

[MajestyJo]

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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.

Phobias are a part of my disease and when I am acting out in them, I have disconnected from my God and allowed fear to erode my faith.

My faith doesn't blot out fear, it replaces it. My faith heals it and allows me to have a change and allows me to not continue acting out in my dis-ease.

Phobias and paranoia are big issues with addicts. I can't, God can.