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

Monday, February 1, 2010

02.01.10

A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. ~William James

Today I am grateful…

  • for the 12 step calls God keeps handing me
  • for the freedom of being available
  • today I have enough
  • today I do not have to struggle with a desire to drink
  • I can carry gratitude in my heart today. Gratitude has been a major healing factor in my life of recovery.

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Who can render an account of all the miseries that once were ours, and who can estimate the release and joy that later years have brought to us? Who can possibly tell the vast consequences of what God's work through A.A. has already set in motion?

And who can penetrate the deeper mystery of our wholesale deliverance from slavery, a bondage to a most hopeless and fatal obsession which for centuries possessed the minds and bodies of men and women like ourselves? ~As Bill Sees It

8 comments:

Unknown said...

I am content in my surroundings today.

Namaste

dAAve said...

You know, a dozen 12-step calls could be gross.

Ed G. said...

Amen and amen.

Thank you for doing this deal and doing it with great effect.

Blessings and aloha...

Lou said...

Practicing gratitude has made a great difference in my life!

Syd said...

Great photo and great post. I love those quotes.

Bill said...

Sometimes when I'm rearranging my kitchen drawers, I'm really thinking.

Smitty said...

I love the quote for your day. About prejudices. Thank you...

S. Susan Deborah said...

Scott sometimes being so positive and nice also is very hurting. I just cannot think "nicely" about everything all the time.

Joy always,
Susan