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" I'm too fat.", " I'm too thin.", " I have a big nose.", " I'm too short.", " I'm too tall.", " I have big teeth.",
---And the list goes on and on.
We live in a culture that says we must look, act and even smell a specific way in order to succeed, matter, and influence people. We have been sold a bill of goods by the fitness industry that says we must work out
and buy expensive sports equipment in order to be fit. Have you ever counted how many silly types of exercise equipment has been televised in the form of info-mercials? We buy them only to have them sitting in the middle of our living rooms for the
first couple of months then out to the garage and then to the garage sale where we sell them for about 3% of what we paid for them. We should charge Soloflex storage fees.
Ah the things we do to feel like we are worthwhile and part of the whole of society. Although it is true that responsibility demands that we take good care of our health, I believe we go just a little bit to far.
And as for the way our bodies are shaped, big teeth and all, that is the way God made you. Isn't it an insult to God to criticize his creations? Remember that old saying.... "God doesn't make junk", well don't just say it, believe it. Listen folks,
do you really think the kid stars of Teen Beat are going to look that way forever? What about Tom Cruz? He isn't so good looking!, What's the big deal. And Jack Nicholson is one of the homeliest men alive today, and look at the great success has
become. The point is, you were formed out of the masters hand exactly the way you were supposed to be. I have found that amongst folks in Twelve Step recovery fellowships that there is a higher level of acceptance of ones self and the way one looks.
We in recovery are so grateful just to be alive, clean and sober one day at a time, that we don't have time for such silliness as what kind of hair, eyes, teeth, or nose, we have. life is way to precious to us.
Application and Implementation
If your having problems accepting yourself, remember, God loves and accepts you just the way you are. --And after all isn't that the only thing that really matters?
It might do you good to get up with your kids in the morning and watch Barney. Yes, that's what I said. I love that song he sings. "You are special, your the only one, the only one like you. There's no one else in
the whole wide world that can do the things you do."
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