Fri. Food For Thought

December 2nd, Guilt It was often a feeling of guilt which led us to overeat, and the more we overate, the more guilty we felt. A Forth Step inventory can pinpoint the reasons for the guilt that we still experience, and by taking the Fifth Step we are able to express and release this guilt. Some of our guilt feelings are unneccessary. We may ecperience a sense of guilt when we say "no" to requests and demands which infringe on our legitimate rights. We may feel guilty when we do not live up to the expectations of someone close to us We need to develop a strong sense of self-worth so that we do not suffer from guilt at not conforming to someone eles's image of who we should be. Working our program relieves us of unneccessary guilt. When we make amends to those we have in fact injured, we are freed from a heavy burden of real guilt. When we experience confirmation of who we are through contact with our Higher Power, we are liberated from the constraint of imagined guilt. Show us how to deal with guilt. Reading from Hazelden Meditation Series Fourth Step-Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Fifth Step-Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.