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

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

08.30.06

If you allow others to define happiness for you, then you're not going to truly experience it. If you allow others to dictate what your dreams should be, you will never reach them. The way to surely and reliably realize your dreams is to choose the ones that have real meaning for you. The way to know happiness is by allowing it to be what you want it to be. Happiness is whatever you decide it is. And as such, it is always well within your reach. ~Ralph Marston

Today I am grateful...
  • to have the resource of the internet and Blogger, that I can share with all of you
  • that I cleaned the house yesterday. There is something about the sense of having a clean space that I created.
  • to finally get to meet Hayden, dAAve's angel
  • that my sidebar isn't out-of-hand
  • for Jim's guacamole and a pile of boiled shrimp
  • for this life I have been given and that I choose to maintain it with working my program of recovery. All I have to work is my program, your's is none of my business.
  • that when I stay open-minded the grace of the universe can flow through me
  • that God will place another alcoholic in my path today, and it only takes one to keep me sober

How to translate a right mental conviction into a right emotional result, and so into easy, happy and good living, is the problem of life itself. ~Bill W, Grapevine Jan. 1958

6 comments:

JJ said...

Life is good...life is good indeed.
I see you,
JJ

Trudging said...

Yes, life is good!

Shannon said...

there is so much good stuff on this post and so many good points of views Scotty thansk for sharing them and have a truly fabulous day... which I am sure you are : D

Recovery Road London said...

Sidebar gratitde - I know that one! Must read the book I bought about HTML. Lol

Pam Jarnagin said...

Yeah, what's up with everyone's sidebars??

Anonymous said...

Having a clean house soothes my soul. Very similar to the way I feel before and after a meeting. I can go in broken and come out grateful.