10.29.07

You're never going to get to any final place. And so, we want to remind you to relax and start having fun on the way. ~Esther Hicks (thanks, Todd)

Today I am grateful...

• that we finally got our October weather. I can't believe it is already the 29th. October is THE month to be in Houston.
• for early morning emails from So and Boston
• for new blogger SOJO
• for today's chance at staying grateful, loving and nonjudgemental
• that today I can remember that we are all fighting our own battles
• that I will try to laugh a lot today
• that in sobriety I have a place in life

There's a "Cloud nine" effect that some of us had when we first found sobriety. Some call it the honeymoon stage (or pink cloud). It includes a feeling of great joy and relief over having found, at last, an answer to drinking. This gradually fades away, as it should under normal conditions. We then feel as though we're in stages of diminishing returns, where the benefits, the experience we have in getting sober, is like that of people who recovery from a terrible physical illness. At first, they feel remarkably better for the first time. But then their recovery becomes taken for granted, and "feeling better" isn't as remarkable as it was when they first recovered. We should not expect it to be. Instead, we can focus on the contentment and well-being that living sober and steady improvement give us. ~Walk In Dry Places