The greatest hapiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. - William Saroyan
Dissatisfaction was one of the hallmarks of my compulsive illness. Few things measured up to my expectations, so I found a way to make it up to myself. I used food to give me the illusion of happiness.
What freedom there is in giving up the chase! -- to go somewhere, do something without demanding that I be happy. Paradoxically, it is when I go my way with an open mind, free of expectations, that I most often find my heart singing.
For Today: What do I need, if not happiness? I need the willingness to take what comes, to get out of my own way, to let go of the idea that I should feel good all the time.
This has been a reoccuring thing for me this week. Earlier this week a friend of mine put a picture on his facebook that said " What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it was supposed to be."
Also, on my Mary Engelbreit desk calander one of my favorite pieces came up..if you can't make out the words on the sign below, it reads one way "Your Life" and the way the girl isn't going "No Longer an option"
I think when the same things keep popping up in front of you like that, God is trying to get some message across, and I hear it!!! That is a 10-4 God!
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