You should never “try”; you should “let”—let God. When you “try” to do things, you are working from the outside. When you let God do them through you, you are working from the inside and success must come. ~ Fox, Emmet. […]
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The Best Gift
Our own sanity is the best gift we can give to others. ~ L., Elisabeth. Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters (Kindle Locations 2303-2304). Hazelden Publishing. We can run the world. Oops, error there. Many of us tried that and […]
Continue reading »Cast Your Burden on the Lord
To cast the burden means really to insist upon harmony and peace of mind, and to cease from worry and anxiety there and then. This leaves you free to go about your business in a serene frame of mind, following […]
Continue reading »Set Aside Defenses
You do not realize what you have done to sabotage the holy peace of God by your defensiveness. ~ Schucman, Dr. Helen. A Course in Miracles (Kindle Locations 17890-17891). Foundation for Inner Peace. It’s called surrender. Conditional or unconditional. Capitulating to […]
Continue reading »Half Measures Don’t Work
Nothing short of an honest, wholehearted commitment to abstinence and the OA program will give us the ability to stop eating compulsively. If we think we can get away with small deviations here and there, we are deluding ourselves. Our […]
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