Today's Reading - Food for Thought

Developing Our Potential Abstinence is the key to developing our potential. For years, our illness has probably controlled our life and reduce our ability to function. Since so much of our energy was tied up in the mental obsession with food and the physical effects of overeating, we were unable to develop the talents and abilities we possessed. Getting in touch with a Higher Power gives us contact with the source of our potential. Our self-centeredness kept us from believing in our capacity to be activated by a Power greater than ourselves. When we see and hear of the results produced by working the OA program, we develop faith in our own buried talents. When food controlled our lives, we were using only a very small percentage of our