Overcoming Setbacks

    I am sure we have all had some type of set backs. I know I have. It has even seemed liked I have gone around the set back block. At every corner seems like some way in my life. Not really but sometimes it just seemed like god had stacked the deck against me. In the past I have always dwell on these moments. Some of them have sent in to an eating binge, others just an emotional roller coaster. Compounded with an addictive personality has what has helped me get to the weight I have over the years. I now know I can only change some things but not all things in my life. It is finding out which ones I can change. I have had year to work on this. Which this I have learned at Celebrate Recovery. I use these set backs as a motivational tool as well as a learning experience to examine my life. So I want to leave you with this prayer.

The Serenity Prayer
	God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen. --Reinhold Niebuhr In loving memory of Fr Bertram Griffin -- 1932-2000 Requiescat in Pace
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3, 5-6