Eating Disorders - OA for February

[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Acceptance

When we have given our lives back to our Higher Power, we gradually learn to accept what happens to us as part of His plan. Most of us made a mess of trying to run our own lives. We are amazed at how much better things go when we acknowledge that the Power greater than ourselves is in control.

Every experience, the bad one as well as the good one, becomes an opportunity to learn and to serve. We may not like what it is that we are given to do or to feel on a particular day, but we learn to accept it as necessary for our growth. We can look back and see that we have learned even more from our failures than from our successes.

When we accept our lives and ourselves as part of God's creation, we are open to the work of His spirit and His love. Then positive change and growth become possible.

Teach me to accept Your will.

Once I find acceptance, I can move forward and change. Until I can accept my disease, who I am and where I am in today, I could not heal. I had to stop saying, I am not as bad as they are. It didn't matter what they did, it was about me and making changes in my life, and accepting that I need to change.