When I first came into the program, my goal was to lose weight. It's still my goal, but now it's not the main focus of my program of recovery.

I've learned that my spiritual and emotional fitness are every bit as important as my physical fitness ... actually, I believe that the spiritual aspect is the most important. If my relationship to the God of my understanding is in order, then everything else seems to fall into place. If I leave my Higher Power out of my life, then everything falls apart.

There's an old program saying, "If you feel apart from God, then who moved?" Whenever I feel like God is a million miles away, I know it's because I moved away from Him, not the other way around. When I am feeling separated from God, then I see my disease of compulsion start to take over. That's why it's very important to me to maintain a conscious contact with my Higher Power. If I let things get too far out of hand, and I start to move away from Him, then I need to make use of that 911 to Heaven. But my intention is to keep in constant touch with God, so that a spiritual emergency isn't the only reason I check in with Him.

One day at a time...
I will do all I can on a daily basis to connect with my Higher Power.

~ Jeff ~

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