Attitude of gratitude - Page 15 - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

lisa1235 · 09-26-2008, 02:42 AM

thanks io storm..im grateful that its not just what im eating its stress(i'll get in my old jeans yet)

Rusty Zipper · 09-26-2008, 05:02 AM

stress!!!

phoey!

grateful to know the stress of my own making...

lisa1235 · 09-26-2008, 08:06 PM

just so grateful that i have a higher power to give the things i still havent managed to solve.

espresso · 09-27-2008, 01:07 AM

From As Bill Sees It
37 A Full and Thankful Heart

" One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine -- both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living.

I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know."

Grapevine, March 1962

lisa1235 · 09-27-2008, 01:34 AM

im grateful for patience...

stone · 09-27-2008, 01:43 AM

Not grateful I have a bad cold.

Grateful I got through a craving yesterday and didn't succumb.

Rusty Zipper · 09-27-2008, 03:38 AM

grateful for kleenex

Gesundheit! Stone'y

IO Storm · 09-27-2008, 12:13 PM

Thank you espresso!

Reminds me of an old, old, rhyme..

Count your blessings, name them one by one

Count your blessings see what God has done

The gist of what Bill said.

Taking inventory of my blessings has been helping me during a time of

chemical depression. It truly has helped. And, as Bill suggests..I don't

take credit..because I too easily fall into the trap of conceit and

pride. So the credit goes to HP!

Thanks again e...

stone · 09-28-2008, 02:37 AM

Rusty Zipper · 09-28-2008, 04:21 AM

hows your shirt sleeve stone'y?

grateful to have a shirt on my back....

stone · 09-28-2008, 06:36 AM

Shirt sleeve is OK, I have tissues.

The cravings are bad though! I am 3 weeks sober which is about the time I normally cave in and drink, add to that feeling really sick....means real strong cravings.
I had better go and eat something, that usually helps.

stone · 09-28-2008, 12:36 PM

After posting here I thought, why not say how I feel in Newcomers?
I am grateful I reached out for help and grateful for the responses I got. Grateful the craving passed too.

Sick of this cold!

espresso · 09-28-2008, 01:33 PM

Hi Stone,
I read your other thread. Great you could reach out and get the support you needed without/before picking up the vodka. It's true isn't it that "This too shall pass". In Fellowship, e.

IO Storm · 09-28-2008, 02:01 PM

Stoney..

Eat like a hog if you have to.

Sleep like a log too.

Post, write, kick, fight, meditate, pray

Just stay away from the drink.

Whatever it takes my friend.

We're with ya.

stone · 09-28-2008, 11:57 PM

Grateful I didn't drink yesterday! Yay!

Grateful the cold is easing off a bit.

Rusty Zipper · 09-29-2008, 04:29 AM

grateful to eat, drink (Non-Alc) and be Merry

IO Storm · 09-29-2008, 12:57 PM

Yeah!

Grateful I know I cannot fail unless I give up.

lisa1235 · 09-30-2008, 09:56 AM

im grateful with cramps and all its still a great day to be clean and content.

IO Storm · 09-30-2008, 10:30 PM

Grateful a friend gave me a panda.

IO Storm · 10-02-2008, 01:58 AM

Where's Stoney???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????

IO Storm · 10-02-2008, 01:59 AM

Grateful for acceptance, and sharing it...

espresso · 10-02-2008, 02:17 AM

This is gonna sound a bit odd but the "black dogs" came for me in the night. I feel terribly depressed this morning but I can be grateful that
(1) I am aware of how I am feeling although it's not comfortable and
(2) Maybe my Higher Power wants to reveal something to me because depression usually masks a whole lot of other stuff I'm not always conscious of. Ooh blimey......anyway

Grateful to be here on-line right now
Grateful to know I don't have to wallow in it - that I have choice today
Grateful to know that I am no alone

Rusty Zipper · 10-02-2008, 05:09 AM

grateful acceptance leads to wisdom...

stone · 10-02-2008, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IO Storm

Where's Stoney???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????

I am here!

Not been very grateful lately, been too sick. It is only a cold so I should be grateful for that I suppose, lol.

IO Storm · 10-02-2008, 02:10 PM

Grateful for friends through thick and thin.

09-26-2008, 05:02 AM	#352 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	stress!!! phoey! grateful to know the stress of my own making... __________________ *Rule 62*

09-27-2008, 01:43 AM	#356 (permalink)
stone Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 18,303	Not grateful I have a bad cold. Grateful I got through a craving yesterday and didn't succumb. __________________ . As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Maitri Upanishads

09-27-2008, 03:38 AM	#357 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful for kleenex Gesundheit! Stone'y __________________ *Rule 62*

09-27-2008, 12:13 PM	#358 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Thank you espresso! Reminds me of an old, old, rhyme.. Count your blessings, name them one by one Count your blessings see what God has done The gist of what Bill said. Taking inventory of my blessings has been helping me during a time of chemical depression. It truly has helped. And, as Bill suggests..I don't take credit..because I too easily fall into the trap of conceit and pride. So the credit goes to HP! Thanks again e... __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

09-28-2008, 02:37 AM	#359 (permalink)
stone Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 18,303	__________________ . As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Maitri Upanishads

09-26-2008, 02:42 AM	#351 (permalink)
lisa1235 Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: richmond,va Posts: 307 Blog Entries: 1	thanks io storm..im grateful that its not just what im eating its stress(i'll get in my old jeans yet)

09-26-2008, 08:06 PM	#353 (permalink)
lisa1235 Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: richmond,va Posts: 307 Blog Entries: 1	just so grateful that i have a higher power to give the things i still havent managed to solve.

09-27-2008, 01:07 AM	#354 (permalink)
espresso Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4,151	From As Bill Sees It 37 A Full and Thankful Heart " One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine -- both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living. I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know." Grapevine, March 1962

09-27-2008, 01:34 AM	#355 (permalink)
lisa1235 Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: richmond,va Posts: 307 Blog Entries: 1	im grateful for patience...

09-28-2008, 04:21 AM	#360 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	hows your shirt sleeve stone'y? grateful to have a shirt on my back.... __________________ *Rule 62*

09-28-2008, 06:36 AM	#361 (permalink)
stone Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 18,303	Shirt sleeve is OK, I have tissues. The cravings are bad though! I am 3 weeks sober which is about the time I normally cave in and drink, add to that feeling really sick....means real strong cravings. I had better go and eat something, that usually helps. __________________ . As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Maitri Upanishads

09-28-2008, 12:36 PM	#362 (permalink)
stone Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 18,303	After posting here I thought, why not say how I feel in Newcomers? I am grateful I reached out for help and grateful for the responses I got. Grateful the craving passed too. Sick of this cold! __________________ . As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Maitri Upanishads

09-28-2008, 01:33 PM	#363 (permalink)
espresso Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4,151	Hi Stone, I read your other thread. Great you could reach out and get the support you needed without/before picking up the vodka. It's true isn't it that "This too shall pass". In Fellowship, e.

09-28-2008, 02:01 PM	#364 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Stoney.. Eat like a hog if you have to. Sleep like a log too. Post, write, kick, fight, meditate, pray Just stay away from the drink. Whatever it takes my friend. We're with ya. __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

09-28-2008, 11:57 PM	#365 (permalink)
stone Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: UK Posts: 18,303	Grateful I didn't drink yesterday! Yay! Grateful the cold is easing off a bit. __________________ . As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Maitri Upanishads

09-29-2008, 04:29 AM	#366 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful to eat, drink (Non-Alc) and be Merry __________________ *Rule 62*

09-29-2008, 12:57 PM	#367 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Yeah! Grateful I know I cannot fail unless I give up. __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

09-30-2008, 09:56 AM	#368 (permalink)
lisa1235 Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: richmond,va Posts: 307 Blog Entries: 1	im grateful with cramps and all its still a great day to be clean and content.

09-30-2008, 10:30 PM	#369 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Grateful a friend gave me a panda. __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

10-02-2008, 01:58 AM	#370 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Where's Stoney???????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????? __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

10-02-2008, 01:59 AM	#371 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Grateful for acceptance, and sharing it... __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

10-02-2008, 02:17 AM	#372 (permalink)
espresso Guest Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 4,151	This is gonna sound a bit odd but the "black dogs" came for me in the night. I feel terribly depressed this morning but I can be grateful that (1) I am aware of how I am feeling although it's not comfortable and (2) Maybe my Higher Power wants to reveal something to me because depression usually masks a whole lot of other stuff I'm not always conscious of. Ooh blimey......anyway Grateful to be here on-line right now Grateful to know I don't have to wallow in it - that I have choice today Grateful to know that I am no alone

10-02-2008, 05:09 AM	#373 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful acceptance leads to wisdom... __________________ *Rule 62*

10-02-2008, 02:10 PM	#375 (permalink)
IO Storm IO Storm Wheel Of Fortune Champion! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 18,175 Blog Entries: 2	Grateful for friends through thick and thin. __________________ "God holds me still in the eye of the Storm"

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