a couple of weeks ago on the Saturday RFA meeting from Atlanta, we read the story "Freedom from Bondage" (p. 544 in the 4th edition of the Big Book). In that story is the "resentment prayer" - you will be freed from resentment if you pray for the person to receive everything that you want for yourself.
I've been reading another piece of literature that says "A friendship requires that a person wishes another the good he wishes for himself."
So that prayer can help me turn enemies into friends.

Before recovery, I was tormented by the isolation of my disease. Once I was able to admit I needed help, I found RFA and over time, my perception of the world has changed.

Recently, I've become aware of a loneliness in recovery. But there has been some confusion for me. The Big Book says my real reliance is always upon God.
But God isn't here to take my food report and talk to me when I am struggling.
So, what to do??
Just to remember that my real reliance IS on God. It's okay for me to find in people and places a temporary home. It's what I'm meant to do. And to realize that home is only temporary - people and places (and sugar, flour and wheat) are not God.

So much of my time was (and often still is) spent trying to find a permanent home in something that is not God. These past few weeks have been all about recognizing my subtle resistance to God, mostly in the desire to be independent and not need help. But my food addiction is evidence of the fact that I need help! I've opened myself to receive it here in RFA. I can trust that it will be safe to receive help in other areas.

My spiritual life must continue to enlarge if I hope to stay abstinent and life a life of sane and happy usefulness. God is safe. I'm glad I have you friends to walk along beside me and remind me of these things when I forget. We're in this together.

Kasey,
Thanks, you shared what I needed to hear and it meant so much to me. Thank you so much.