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

Sunday, April 26, 2009

04.26.09

We have been seduced and trapped by a ritual of forgetting ourselves. ~Touchstones
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Today I am grateful...
  • for a light, lively and occasionally moving birthday night at TLC
  • that for a while now, when I wake up, all the furniture is where it was the night before
  • to keep enough free space in my mind so that anything new has a chance to settle in
  • that there is never room for Jello (I dislike it immensely) but there is always room for growth

We may have let ourselves believe that we're supposed to display an attitude that expresses our opinions of others. If a person is crude and boorish, we should be cool and defensive for our self-protection. If a person is warm and friendly, we should respond in warm and friendly ways. If we have believed these things, then we're actually letting others control our attitudes and behavior. We are letting personalities interfere with the high principles we are learning in AA. We are not living at the best possible level. ~Walk in Dry Places

5 comments:

Pammie said...

there is always room for pie.

Trailboss said...

I'm glad you are happy So. You deserve that too!

I am also glad that your furniture no longer grows legs and walks. I guess the sofa and bed had legs though.

Lou said...

Bea was a good woman.

Mary Christine said...

Cherry jello with mayo. ymmmmm. (I know I just made some of you sick, but I can't help it.)

Man Alive said...

things where we left them the night before: furniture, car, dishes, glasses, books, wallet, etc.

thanks for the post and thank god for sobriety.