IF THE ONLY PRAYER YOU SAID IN YOUR LIFE WAS "THANK YOU", THAT WOULD SUFFICE. ~Meister Eckhart

Saturday, June 4, 2005

06.04.05

Today I am grateful...
  • to be able to set boundaries
  • that when the automatic part of my mind leads me to the desire to criticize another I can pause, realizing that need to critique another is my self esteem needing some reassurance
  • to have learned to trust the process and to shy away from apprehension
  • to give out my phone number to others in the program and then actually answer the phone when it rings. This is a big one for me.
  • to have found a way, yesterday, to correct my behavior before the damage was done, however small it would have been and whether or not it would have been discovered. What I did was to correct some selfishness in myself. I have to live with honesty, to the best of my ability.
  • for proof that willingness to move forward can bring rewards

4 comments:

BarbaraFromCalifornia said...

You seem to be a great example of recovery, scott! I am enjoying reading your gratitude lists and they are a reminder to me of why I should be grateful as well.

Have a good day.

dAAve said...

I see some Integrity at work here.

Hannen said...

I'm so glad I didn't know you before you got sober! Love you.

Recovery Road London said...

"to give out my phone number to others in the program and then actually answer the phone when it rings. This is a big one for me."

LMAO! Too true, oh too, too true!

Funny thing is, when I was drunk I thought nothing of ringing people at 4am....now I can barely summon the courage to ring my sponsor...let alone hand out my number.

Great post.