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

Monday, January 29, 2007

01.29.07

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. ~Unknown

Today I am grateful...
  • that tears today are signs of LIFE
  • for the analogy of AA being the dike that holds back the ocean of alcohol
  • that I haven't seen a pay toilet in years
  • for those who relapse and make it back, so I don't have to do the research myself
  • that I am often repelled by what fascinates the general public
  • for the lives I touch and the lives that touch me
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~Elie Wiesel

10 comments:

Unknown said...

Good morning Scott~

What a great list and I love what Elie had to say. Very good for my heart and soul right now.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday.

dAAve said...

"the dike that holds back the ocean of alcohol"

No. No, I will not comment.

Scott W said...

Oh, balls! Dave, go ahead!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for another simply lovely post Scott W :)

Pammie said...

thank you darlin', your posts are always so thought provoking!

Mary Christine said...

Wow. A pay toilet. I forgot about those. And I am glad they are gone.

Jonathan29 said...

what's a pay toilet? you had to actually pay to go to the bathroom?

Scott W said...

Gah! Matt, it's where this phrase started:

Here I sit all disenhearted,
paid to shit and only farted.

Yes, there used to be pay to piss toilets.

Anonymous said...

those that make it back, is definitely cause for gratitude. b/c there are so many that do not.

Anonymous said...

ah I too have much gratitude for the people whose lives I touch & those who touch mine. I have gratitude for the fact that I can actually touch peoples lives in a good way & that I have something to offer.

thanks for reminding me.
<3