Today's Reading - For Today

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up." Pearl S. Buck Discovering one's own inner resources is a reward of abstinence. Newfound energies and a soaring spirit take up the time and space of what was once compulsive overeating. Abstinence brings other substitutions: I have courage in place of fear, challenging ideas in place of shallow thought, action instead of wishful thinking and an honest desire to share in place of selfish interests.