Daily Thought - ThinnerTimes

alees55 · 08-11-2007, 06:05 PM

THOUGHT for 8/12

Food is a Symptom

"When the inside feelings does not match our outside appearance, we need to become vulnerable again. We need to talk about how we really feel." Touchstones

Food is a symptom of my disease not the reason for it. The reason for me is learning how to live life with all my emotions. It's learning how to live within my life and all it's experiences and use the proper emotions in the correct and appropriate manner at the appropriate time. Is that possible? At times, yes! And for me it's learning how to achieve this goal more and more. It's learning how to deal with all my character defects and attributes in unison and effectively. This is life on life's terms. The way my addictions play into my life is very patient and seductive and they wait for and opening, whenever I have a chinch in my armor of recovery.
I know if I abstain from reacting to my emotions and feelings and stay abstinent I will be more in touch with myself and my emotions. I will not, with the help of God and my program go back and numb myself out with one of my addictions. This to me is working a program of recovery and coping with my life's experiences.
I finding out that this process will be never-ending and is ongoing. I know I never get it all right, but I'm getting better at dealing with my life properly. "One step at a time" and "One day at a time." There will always be opportunities for further progress, its possibilities are limitless. I have to take advantage of today's learning experiences and I thank God for these blessings. "Thy will not mine be done!"

"When life hands us challenges or abuses, it may actually be moving us into a position where we gain greater good than if the incidents had not happened." Alan Cohen

Peace, love, and recovery,
Bobby

THOUGHT for 8/13
"Freedom means the right to be different, the right to be oneself." Ira Eisenstein

It is arrogant to think I can get or keep someone abstinent. I have no control over anything, but my own program. If I allow this arrogant thinking to control my actions I am on the quick pathway to destruction. This self-importance is pride and I need to get back to basic's. When this pride surfaces I must remember that I have no control over people, places, and things. I have a hard enough time managing my own life and if I think I can manage someone else's I am in a lot of trouble. This thinking sends a signal to me that I am trying to avoid something in my own life at the time. It's misdirection. I have to stop this action and look within to see what I am trying to avoid. I must stop right then and pray to God for help and guidance. To show me that I am powerless over others and to protect me from my own arrogance and pride.
Being in program and recovery I have been given a list of directions, they are the Twelve Steps. But I also look at them more as guidelines for progress. I with the help of God, the Steps, and the Fellowship will develop my own journey and I must learn to respect the freedom we all have to make our own decisions and choices. That is the "free will" that God has given to each and every one of us and I have no right to try to control someone else's journey. My concern is that abstinence remains the most important choice I make each day. Using God's guidance to help with the rest of the choices I make I will learn how to live a much better way of life.

"To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of a total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness." Erich Fromm

Peace, love, and recovery,
Bobby