Recovery Meditations ~ Vision ~ One Day at a Time ~ May 7, 2011

~ VISION ~

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the

moment a single man contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a

cathedral.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It never ceases to amaze me how the

disease of compulsive overeating

distorts the vision. Some compulsive

overeaters can look into a mirror and

see a fat person where there is

none. Others can look into the same

mirror and not see the weight that is

there.

Recovery brings new eyes to the

compulsive overeater. It lets us to see

what's really there in the

mirror. Recovery allows each of us to

see the cathedral we really are, rather

than the pile of rubble we think we

see. Recovery corrects our vision.


ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .

As I work my recovery program, I will see myself as I really am, rather than seeing what the disease shows me.