Women, Food and God

Heard of it?

The author was just on Oprah ... so unless you live in a cave, I suppose by now you might have heard of it.

Picked it up at Target ... can't put it down ... well, I put it down to type this ... but if I could I'd have one eye here and another on the book ... that would be some awesome multi-tasking.

Some people I have talked to are put off because the "God" in the author's reference is not the one I know, not my Savior, not the King of Kings ... but I am still reading it, because every time it says "God", I just put in my Papa, my Lord, my Redeemer ... and keep reading.

I just read the chapter called "Never Underestimate the Inclination to Bolt." Ha, so true ... and although I see myself as an outgoing-face-it-and-deal-kinda-chick ... it is in there, the desire to run, to plop my face into a plate of frosted brownies to somehow deal with whatever I might be feeling.

"Compulsive eating is an attempt to avoid the absence of (love, comfort, knowing what to do) when we find ourselves in the desert of a particular moment, a feeling, a situation. In the process of resisting the emptiness, in the act of turning away from our feelings, of trying and trying again to lose the same 20, 50, 80 lbs, we ignore what could utterly transform us. But when we welcome what we most want to avoid, we evoke that in us that is not a story, not caught in the past, not some old image of ourselves. We evoke divinity itself, And in doing so, we can hold emptiness, old hurts, fear in our cupped hands and behold our missing hearts." Pg. 34

This is a book I think I'll be re-reading ... like The Shack. It's nearly 7am and I should be to work in 10 minutes ... my kids are still sleeping. Back to reading ... work can wait.