Only step by step, stage by stage, can you proceed in your journey into greater knowledge and understanding. ~Twenty-Four Hours a Day
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Today I am grateful...
- for the absolutely best time to live in Houston--winter!
- for prayers for all those that suffer
- that experience shows me today I will have all I need
- for genuine and simple understandings I have today I lacked in my drinking days
- that I have a new shirt to wear today. Dave loves it when I wear new things.
- that the life of recovery is a SWEET deal
- for my memories. Whether they are delightful or painful, they are mine.
Living with paradox is part of my sobriety. Things are never quite what they seem. When I think I have something figured out, I am made to be confused again especially around my life, relationships, people, events and the universe. Life is both simple and incomprehensible. God seems to demand an agnostic faith! There is so much I do not know or understand.
But all of this leads to a creative and exciting sobriety. It makes life an adventure. It feeds that artistic part of me that is reborn in my sobriety. Things I used to dislike when I drank, I now enjoy. People and writers that once bored me now fascinate me; even modern art has a spiritual message! ~Fr Leo
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Stopping by to say hello. Enjoy wearing your new shirt today!
I think it's funny that Dave loves it when you wear new things when he has openly admitted that Hayden has to dress him. ;)
It is an awfully sweet deal - recovery that is.
I hope I get to see your new shirt. Will you be wearing it around your torso?
Around torso? Do you usually wears the shirt tied around the waist? Or is Dave joshin' today.
lol daave and pam, well since you mentioned your new shirt, you must post a pic of it ♥
I like the experience shows that for today I will have all I will need. That is indeed a wonderful feeling. Thanks for pointing that out. And what color is the new shirt.
It's a black cotton shirt with white tattersall, by Liz Claiborne. You know, Tim Gunn is the current creative director for Claiborne. I am wearing it like a real shirt, not around my waist. I got it new on ebay for $6.99. Actually I got it free because when it arrived the first time it was a pair of women's jeans, size tiny. So the seller immediately refunded my PayPal account plus deposited $10 so I could send it on to the rightful bidder. She in turn sent me my new shirt. That, I am sure, is way more than any of you wanted to know. But you were curious, right?
A new shirt is great. And if Dave approves it has to be a nice shirt. Hope that you have a great day.
Hi there,
I LOVE your blog. We share a similar passion about Gratitude! I just launched a new site www.GratitudeLog.com to make it very simple and easy for people to express their daily gratitude and send each other little appreciation notes. I think you will love it.
I just had to look up "tattersall" I had no idea that one of my favorite dresses had a tattersall pattern. I loved that dress!
Hope you enjoyed a nice day in a nice new LC tattersall shirt... and I hope Dave enjoyed it too.
Fr. Leo mentioned your art!!!
Yeah, yeah. It is a friggin' nice shirt. Okay?
A shirt's a shirt, right?
Some people are just jealous!
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