It is probably not a coincidence, it occurs to me as I struggle to get back on track after a weekend of swerving on and off my path, hands frantically gripping the wheel, that I am currently getting ready to write the part of my book that is about surrender.
Probably not.
I suppose it might be helpful, maybe, to actually practice what I'm preaching.
Maybe.
Just maybe.
No matter how far I've come, no matter how much weight I've lost, no matter how long I've kept it off, it still comes down to this: I can't control it, but I can't not control it.
My weight. My body. My eating. My appetite. My will power. My desire. My thought life. My life, in general. I have no control. But I can't, for the life of me, stop trying to grasp for it.
The Word says he who seeks to save his life loses it. Does it logically follow that she who seeks to lose her weight gains it?
Surrender. Yielding control. Taking my hands off the wheel. Screaming in terror as my car heads toward a tree. Do I hit the tree? Or do I find my way through the forest?
I don't know.
It's out of my hands.
Probably not.
I suppose it might be helpful, maybe, to actually practice what I'm preaching.
Maybe.
Just maybe.
No matter how far I've come, no matter how much weight I've lost, no matter how long I've kept it off, it still comes down to this: I can't control it, but I can't not control it.
My weight. My body. My eating. My appetite. My will power. My desire. My thought life. My life, in general. I have no control. But I can't, for the life of me, stop trying to grasp for it.
The Word says he who seeks to save his life loses it. Does it logically follow that she who seeks to lose her weight gains it?
Surrender. Yielding control. Taking my hands off the wheel. Screaming in terror as my car heads toward a tree. Do I hit the tree? Or do I find my way through the forest?
I don't know.
It's out of my hands.
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