Happy Thanksgiving!

[TonyB]

I just wanted to take a moment to give thanks to all of my friends here at SRF. I pray that the Lord bless each and every one of you. Today, I have so much in my life to be thankful for. The Lord, through this program of recovery, pulled me out of a pit of alcoholic despair. He is faithful, no matter how much I flounder or how often I stumble. His grace is truly “exceedingly abundant�.
God Bless,
TB

[Rarly Harley]

Tony: I too, am forever gratefull to God, for leading me to AA. I would never have found Him, nor even looked for Him, anywhere else and I would have died drunk. Of that, I am 100% convinced. I am also convinced that AA is a God-given program for just that purpose, to give all of us, whether athiest, agnostic, non-believer, or wanderer from faith, an opportunity to connect with a higher power of our own choosing and eventually back to God.....We've already had our Thanksgiving up here in Canada, but Happy Thanksgiving to all my American Brothers and Sisters....

LOVE YA...

[Hurricane]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

[chris k]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[TonyB]

RH,
Well said my friend. I feel the same way. I would have died a miserable drunk.
I saw something on a church billboard on the way home tonight "An attitude of gratitude" Looks like someone in that church is in the program!

[toad]

Have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.........I feel that Thanksgiving is one of the few or maybe the only true holiday that we have that has not been exploited buying and selling.

I am truly grateful that I have God in my life and that I am clean and sober. I am truly grateful that God continues to do for me what I could not do for myself.

[toad]

Thanks Tony for posting this...........My sponsors wife always introduces herself as a Grateful Alcoholic......at first I never understood this. Today I realize that gratitude is a very very important ingredient in my program of recovery. I learned this by experiencing over confidence and being an ingrate.

[TonyB]

Toad,
You are welcome. I love to talk about gratitude. That’s the thing about being saved by grace; it’s a free gift I received on no account of my own. Not by works lest any man boast. The hole Jesus Christ pulled me out of was long and deep. When I called on Him, I was the one crying out in the dark; but He quickly welcomed me into the light. I owe everything I have in my life today to Him.
Blessings,
TB

[BillJ]

Like most Americans, I have "celebrated" Thanksgiving all my life, but yesterday something was different. We were out in Bandera, at my brother-in-law's ranch, where we've spent several T-days in recent years. Almost all my in-laws and their extended families were present - nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, brothers and sisters, etcetera - from ages 6 to 82. Nothing unusual about that, but...

At mid-afternoon we gathered in a circle to pray, and for some reason, for the first time in my life, I really got what Thanksgiving is about. For some reason, I could almost see that first Thanksgiving. Those newcomers to North American shores, in a gesture harkening back at least to the Druids and ancient Celts, if not earlier, were simply, humbly, gratefully thanking their Higher Power for the very stuff of life - their survival of a harsh ocean passage, game and corn and fruit from the trees, shelter against the coming winter... I was moved to tears as we stood in that circle, and I'm moved again just typing these words. An act of gratitude. How simple! How profound! How much I have to be grateful for!

Including you! I love y'all, and there ain't squat you can do about it!

[TonyB]

Thanks for that Bill.

[Jazzed_N_AZ]

Originally Posted by BillJ

Those newcomers to North American shores, in a gesture harkening back at least to the Druids and ancient Celts, if not earlier, were simply, humbly, gratefully thanking their Higher Power for the very stuff of life - their survival of a harsh ocean passage, game and corn and fruit from the trees, shelter against the coming winter... I was moved to tears as we stood in that circle, and I'm moved again just typing these words. An act of gratitude. How simple! How profound! How much I have to be grateful for!

Dont forget the sharing with those native people that welcomed the settlers to thier homeland and shared thier knowledge of the land so that the settlers could have a bountiful harvest. Humble, selfless acts of kindness, a concept mankind is loosing sight of. I pray that I can remember more than once a year, my fellow man.