FOOD FOR THOUGHT- OA/AUGUST 2014

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, August 9, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Daily Inventory

When we are not functioning up to par, we need to find out where the problem is. If the day begins to fall apart and we feel overwhelmed and unable to cope, it may be a good idea to stop and take inventory.

Examining the quality of our abstinence is a good place to begin. Have we permitted thoughts of making a small exception here and there? Are we dwelling too much on what we will have for the next meal? Did we make a substitution, which gave us more carbohydrates than we could handle?

If the problem is not with abstinence, then it must be in our emotional or spiritual life. Are we harboring resentments, which are poisoning our outlook? Have we made a mistake, which we are unwilling to admit? Is there something we need to do for a family member that we are procrastinating about doing? Are we denying a legitimate need of our own?

Grant me the honesty to confront my weaknesses.

So important to my recovery. I went to meetings for about 10 days and just about every meeting I went to was Step 10. I went to a Big Book study out of town, thinking to escape Step 10, they were reading Step 10 from the Big Book. I went to Al-Anon and it was Step 10. Went to a 12 & 12 group I seldom go to, and they were discussing Step 10, I finally got the message when I went to NA and realized that I was doing the Step in the evening, and it was a recovery tool, to be used all day long.