FREEDOM
“A hungry person is not a free person.”
~ Adlai Stevenson ~
For years, I craved food. It was my escape from reality. It stopped the pain, loneliness, and anger for a moment. It felt good. Eventually, I began to feel bad, but I could not stop. I was addicted to sugar. My freedom was exchanged for doughnuts!
I heard someone talk about compulsion around cocaine and gambling. When I asked how he managed to abstain, he replied: “Talk about it, a day at a time!”
Today I am compulsive about getting well. I talk about my disease every day. The price of freedom is vulnerability. God is in the risk. I have taken it.
God, let me experience freedom in the choices I make today.
© 2008 Leo Booth
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