FOOD FOR THOUGHT - OA OCTOBER

[MajestyJo]

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Surrender

Continuing to take the first three Steps enables us to become increasingly surrendered to our Higher Power. Our goal is to let our egotistical selves be dissolved in a greater Self, so that the Higher Power lives through us. The loss of ego frightens us and attacks our illusions of self-sufficiency.

Here is where we can be grateful for our disease. If we were not convinced of our helplessness in the face of our obsession with food, we would not be desperate enough to surrender to a Higher Power. Only after we have tried and failed over and over again in our battle with compulsive overeating are we willing to accept the OA program.

We surrender in order to stop eating compulsively. We gain infinitely more than we had expected. Not only does our Higher Power give us abstinence from compulsive overeating, but also more than that He gives us Himself. No longer do we live as an isolated, weak self, but in us lives the Power of the universe.

May we surrender completely to Your power.

We wonder why we keep failing and we say the program doesn't work, when in fact we don't work the program. We try to God's Work for Him/Her, if we even given it to the God of our understanding in the first place. We may go through the motions, but in truth we truly don't let go and surrender.