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Alive · 04-20-2007, 03:39 PM

I'm grateful to experience reality. I understand that this disease has brought me bennefits. Yes! It has showed me how to appreciate sobriety even more than maybe if i didn't have an addiction. I appreciate the world, i hear my five senses.In a day of sobriety i taste coffee like i'm given a treasure. I taste a kiss with a tear. I hear angels when others only hear noise. Yes,it's actually o.k. It made me learn faster, it made me hurt faster.And a soul after pain is a more beautiful soul if that soul says yes to love. Yes i am grateful because the road is already built, my shoes are already on and my first step is going to touch the ground. I am grateful because i know temptation is only a way to win a victory, grateful for being forced to dig deep and not have shame of anything. And Honesty, for being the only way in sobriety. I am grateful because the addiction, without knowing has brought me to an even better place than before. And yes i am grateful for being me.I wouldn't change me, because it's ME: God knew i needed to be me,and i am grateful he chose not to leave me on hold in heaven waiting for an opening. It's so good to be alive.

I am grateful this place is a chain of love. I am grateful for people who hurt are special people and that here wisdom is passed on like from fathers to children, in an act of unselfishness.

God bless

margo · 04-20-2007, 06:14 PM

Your post really touched me Karimpatim - thank you!

Alive · 04-21-2007, 06:43 AM

And I am grateful today because tomorrow i will be sober

Alive · 04-21-2007, 08:14 PM

I am grateful because the 22nd of April i am sober. I am thankful because sobriety is still on my system. I can feel it coming back. The blood is pumping again the good feelings, and as i let my soul say no the part of the brain controlled by the disease, i start to imagine again the fields of land where i can run into and never stop finding a new tree with a story of wisdom to tell. I am grateful for the rain of yesterday and for the sun of today. I am grateful to understand that i judge the world less and less. Because fighting addiction is about acceptance i might not understand but i hold no judgment. Not even God after all fits in a mold. I am grateful that i see i can follow religion and see Him in every living being around me and that diversity is his work. I am grateful that i care less and less about opinions and more and more about actions. I am thankful that i am more ready to love and be loved and have learned through a short time of sobriety not to give my energy to things unworthy.Because today i looked in the mirror and i smiled, not just a smile, i smiled with laughter. I understood it.I knew it, there's somebody watching for me. Preventing me to get too hurt.And because hours ago i was desperate and in this moment i'm peaceful. And yes i am sheding all the guilt, for things i didn't do and that lead me to addiction. Yes for words i didn't speak, for words i didn't shout and for feelings i let consume me to the bone. I am grateful because i no longer ask forgiveness to walk on the world, it is my right. I am grateful because i can teach my kids one day how they can find the path of self love and independence from the start.
I am proud because i am learning so much about me and that i am the only one who can save myself. The only one who can say yes, i want to live
Amen

Let God finish the work he started on me

04-20-2007, 03:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
Alive believer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Europe Posts: 2,411 Blog Entries: 1	We're a chain of love I'm grateful to experience reality. I understand that this disease has brought me bennefits. Yes! It has showed me how to appreciate sobriety even more than maybe if i didn't have an addiction. I appreciate the world, i hear my five senses.In a day of sobriety i taste coffee like i'm given a treasure. I taste a kiss with a tear. I hear angels when others only hear noise. Yes,it's actually o.k. It made me learn faster, it made me hurt faster.And a soul after pain is a more beautiful soul if that soul says yes to love. Yes i am grateful because the road is already built, my shoes are already on and my first step is going to touch the ground. I am grateful because i know temptation is only a way to win a victory, grateful for being forced to dig deep and not have shame of anything. And Honesty, for being the only way in sobriety. I am grateful because the addiction, without knowing has brought me to an even better place than before. And yes i am grateful for being me.I wouldn't change me, because it's ME: God knew i needed to be me,and i am grateful he chose not to leave me on hold in heaven waiting for an opening. It's so good to be alive. I am grateful this place is a chain of love. I am grateful for people who hurt are special people and that here wisdom is passed on like from fathers to children, in an act of unselfishness. God bless __________________ the biggest power a being is given is the now. in the now there is will, choice and therefore a power with no boundaries; for what is born from pure love has no seasons, only continuity, then growth. your spirit will tell you the truth. there's a silence within the silence.

04-20-2007, 06:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
margo Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia Posts: 1,727	Your post really touched me Karimpatim - thank you! __________________ Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. ~Ojibwe saying~

04-21-2007, 06:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
Alive believer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Europe Posts: 2,411 Blog Entries: 1	And I am grateful today because tomorrow i will be sober __________________ the biggest power a being is given is the now. in the now there is will, choice and therefore a power with no boundaries; for what is born from pure love has no seasons, only continuity, then growth. your spirit will tell you the truth. there's a silence within the silence.

04-21-2007, 08:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
Alive believer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Europe Posts: 2,411 Blog Entries: 1	I am grateful because the 22nd of April i am sober. I am thankful because sobriety is still on my system. I can feel it coming back. The blood is pumping again the good feelings, and as i let my soul say no the part of the brain controlled by the disease, i start to imagine again the fields of land where i can run into and never stop finding a new tree with a story of wisdom to tell. I am grateful for the rain of yesterday and for the sun of today. I am grateful to understand that i judge the world less and less. Because fighting addiction is about acceptance i might not understand but i hold no judgment. Not even God after all fits in a mold. I am grateful that i see i can follow religion and see Him in every living being around me and that diversity is his work. I am grateful that i care less and less about opinions and more and more about actions. I am thankful that i am more ready to love and be loved and have learned through a short time of sobriety not to give my energy to things unworthy.Because today i looked in the mirror and i smiled, not just a smile, i smiled with laughter. I understood it.I knew it, there's somebody watching for me. Preventing me to get too hurt.And because hours ago i was desperate and in this moment i'm peaceful. And yes i am sheding all the guilt, for things i didn't do and that lead me to addiction. Yes for words i didn't speak, for words i didn't shout and for feelings i let consume me to the bone. I am grateful because i no longer ask forgiveness to walk on the world, it is my right. I am grateful because i can teach my kids one day how they can find the path of self love and independence from the start. I am proud because i am learning so much about me and that i am the only one who can save myself. The only one who can say yes, i want to live Amen Let God finish the work he started on me __________________ the biggest power a being is given is the now. in the now there is will, choice and therefore a power with no boundaries; for what is born from pure love has no seasons, only continuity, then growth. your spirit will tell you the truth. there's a silence within the silence.

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