Morning Gratitude Through the Night- Part 11 - Page 4 - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

lulamay · 10-15-2009, 10:55 PM

Congratulations on your 1 year, Believe

. Fantastic stuff!

Grateful for friends and family
Grateful to discover there are many different ways to get better - it's a case of tapping into the right one.
Grateful for Scrabble over the internet to keep me busy when the work doesn't come in and I've cleaned the house, showered the cat, grouted the bathroom...

Have a happy day, all.

Rusty Zipper · 10-16-2009, 03:44 AM

oh least, that French! lol

love the avi lula!

grateful for fridays, as its a day of adventure.

bohemianzen · 10-16-2009, 04:20 AM

TGIF! hope the adventure is calm today rz

bee

how precious - i'm grateful 4 you!

grateful for the deep sleeps i've been getting
grateful the weekend cometh
grateful for my kittehs - they are such good company
love to you all!

Believe808 · 10-16-2009, 04:39 AM

grateful for another sober day.

grateful for a job.

grateful to sign on in the morning

and see friends sharing their gratitude.

gravity · 10-16-2009, 08:17 AM

Grateful for a good rest and feeling hopeful this morning. It may just turn out to be a good day.

least · 10-16-2009, 06:28 PM

Grateful that a nap made me feel better, the wonderful power of sleep...

Rusty Zipper · 10-16-2009, 06:45 PM

bo

Quote:

hope the adventure is calm today rz

see Whiners! lol

lulamay · 10-16-2009, 11:52 PM

Grateful it's the weekend and it's going to be a lazy one.
Grateful for this forum
Grateful for old films on the telly
Grateful that I feel like I've got my life back

Rusty Zipper · 10-17-2009, 04:22 AM

grateful for another adventure today.

and this time, will hit the pause button before parking! lol

Believe808 · 10-17-2009, 06:50 AM

grateful for my HG meeting this morning.

gravity · 10-17-2009, 07:43 AM

Grateful for the Big Book.

least · 10-17-2009, 07:47 AM

Grateful that I have no plans for today and can just take it easy.

Horselover · 10-17-2009, 08:44 AM

Grateful for a peaceful morning.

Grateful for time to develop my creative side.

Grateful for serene music playing in the background.

Grateful for the cloudy day. Not sure why, but grateful for it just the same.

Grateful for my Mom who celebrates her 69th birthday tomorrow. Making her lasagna and an apple cake.

Grateful for my full life.

least · 10-17-2009, 03:15 PM

Grateful I got up the ambition to walk the dogs. Grateful that the sun is shining now and it's not raining. Grateful for the dogs sleeping peacefully on my rug.

lulamay · 10-18-2009, 12:54 AM

Grateful that I slept all through the night.
Grateful I'm getting the energy back to do some exercise
Grateful I'm feeling just tickety-boo

Horselover · 10-18-2009, 01:25 AM

Grateful that even though I can't sleep I can still find SR.

Grateful that my computer works.

Grateful that the internet works.

Grateful for electricity.

Grateful that in 5 hours I will be getting up with the average person that lives in this time zone.

Rusty Zipper · 10-18-2009, 04:07 AM

grateful for the letric slide

grateful, its electric!, living sober that is!

line up grat packer's

Believe808 · 10-18-2009, 07:59 AM

ha ha, I love the electric slide!!

grateful I am sober and can see things

in a different light.

gravity · 10-18-2009, 08:54 AM

Grateful for Footprints:

One night a man had a dream.

He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord.

Scenes from his life flashed across the sky and he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to him and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life had flashed before him, he recalled that at the lowest and saddest times of his life there was only one set of footprints.

Dismayed, he asked, "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. I don't understand why, when I needed you most, you would leave me."

The Lord replied, "My precious child. I love you and I would never leave you. during your times of trial and suffering when you saw only one set of footprints...

That was when I carried you."

least · 10-18-2009, 02:11 PM

Grateful to be feeling a bit better than this morning. Grateful for a visit from a friend. Grateful to be connected to the rest of the world just by sitting at my desk! The wonder of computers!

lulamay · 10-18-2009, 11:12 PM

How I agree with you, least!
So grateful for the laptop
Grateful for friends and family
Grateful for the fantastic autumn days - those leaves are quite something!

Believe808 · 10-19-2009, 05:35 AM

grateful for a new day

grateful the sun is shinning

grateful for the gift of sobriety.

Rusty Zipper · 10-19-2009, 05:50 AM

grateful for the third visit to the dentist,

and more grateful going in free from fear.

well, maybe not the financial one! ugh!

gravity · 10-19-2009, 06:45 AM

Monday, October 19, 2009

You are reading from the book Touchstones

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart I could really see you.
—David Brandon

Trying to control and change the people around us creates great problems in our relationships. When people we love are expressing themselves, we're thinking about what we wish they would say, and it blocks us from hearing clearly. A need for safety and for a guarantee that we won't be abandoned urges us to manipulate the people we love. We know we have innocent motives. We say we only want what is best and that we are only trying to protect ourselves or be helpful. But we hide from the effects our actions have on our relationships.

We seem to be more trapped in these self-centered behaviors with the ones we are closest to. We can change ourselves by slowly releasing our security grip on others. We can focus more on understanding what others are saying to us than on changing how they think and feel. Intimacy is clearly seeing each other and knowing the differences as well as the similarities. It requires that both people be allowed to walk on separate paths.

I will release my grip on my loved ones and turn to my Higher Power for security and serenity.

least · 10-19-2009, 09:03 AM

Grateful for a sunny day. Grateful to wake up sober and alive to the moment. Grateful that the 'dark' moods do pass. Grateful that I am able to do for myself and get around on my own power.

10-15-2009, 10:55 PM	#76 (permalink)
lulamay Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: England Posts: 89	Congratulations on your 1 year, Believe. Fantastic stuff! Grateful for friends and family Grateful to discover there are many different ways to get better - it's a case of tapping into the right one. Grateful for Scrabble over the internet to keep me busy when the work doesn't come in and I've cleaned the house, showered the cat, grouted the bathroom... Have a happy day, all.

10-16-2009, 03:44 AM	#77 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	oh least, that French! lol love the avi lula! grateful for fridays, as its a day of adventure. __________________ *Rule 62*

10-16-2009, 04:20 AM	#78 (permalink)
bohemianzen grateful to be here Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 426 Blog Entries: 14	TGIF! hope the adventure is calm today rz bee how precious - i'm grateful 4 you! grateful for the deep sleeps i've been getting grateful the weekend cometh grateful for my kittehs - they are such good company love to you all! __________________ “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~Ernest Hemingway

10-16-2009, 08:17 AM	#80 (permalink)
gravity where the light is Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,709	Grateful for a good rest and feeling hopeful this morning. It may just turn out to be a good day. __________________ It's times like these you learn to live again. It's times like these you give and give again. It's times like these you learn to love again. It's times like these time and time again. Times Like These - Foo Fighters

10-16-2009, 06:28 PM	#81 (permalink)
least bona fido dog-lover Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: eastern USA Posts: 23,513 Blog Entries: 31	Grateful that a nap made me feel better, the wonderful power of sleep... __________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley

10-16-2009, 04:39 AM	#79 (permalink)
Believe808 Miracles Happen Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9,977	grateful for another sober day. grateful for a job. grateful to sign on in the morning and see friends sharing their gratitude.

10-16-2009, 11:52 PM	#83 (permalink)
lulamay Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: England Posts: 89	Grateful it's the weekend and it's going to be a lazy one. Grateful for this forum Grateful for old films on the telly Grateful that I feel like I've got my life back

10-17-2009, 04:22 AM	#84 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful for another adventure today. and this time, will hit the pause button before parking! lol __________________ *Rule 62*

10-17-2009, 06:50 AM	#85 (permalink)
Believe808 Miracles Happen Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9,977	grateful for my HG meeting this morning.

10-17-2009, 07:43 AM	#86 (permalink)
gravity where the light is Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,709	Grateful for the Big Book. __________________ It's times like these you learn to live again. It's times like these you give and give again. It's times like these you learn to love again. It's times like these time and time again. Times Like These - Foo Fighters

10-17-2009, 07:47 AM	#87 (permalink)
least bona fido dog-lover Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: eastern USA Posts: 23,513 Blog Entries: 31	Grateful that I have no plans for today and can just take it easy. __________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley

10-17-2009, 08:44 AM	#88 (permalink)
Horselover Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: NM Posts: 6,568 Blog Entries: 3	Grateful for a peaceful morning. Grateful for time to develop my creative side. Grateful for serene music playing in the background. Grateful for the cloudy day. Not sure why, but grateful for it just the same. Grateful for my Mom who celebrates her 69th birthday tomorrow. Making her lasagna and an apple cake. Grateful for my full life. __________________ "For who among us shall cast the first stone?"

10-17-2009, 03:15 PM	#89 (permalink)
least bona fido dog-lover Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: eastern USA Posts: 23,513 Blog Entries: 31	Grateful I got up the ambition to walk the dogs. Grateful that the sun is shining now and it's not raining. Grateful for the dogs sleeping peacefully on my rug. __________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley

10-18-2009, 12:54 AM	#90 (permalink)
lulamay Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: England Posts: 89	Grateful that I slept all through the night. Grateful I'm getting the energy back to do some exercise Grateful I'm feeling just tickety-boo

10-18-2009, 01:25 AM	#91 (permalink)
Horselover Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: NM Posts: 6,568 Blog Entries: 3	Grateful that even though I can't sleep I can still find SR. Grateful that my computer works. Grateful that the internet works. Grateful for electricity. Grateful that in 5 hours I will be getting up with the average person that lives in this time zone. __________________ "For who among us shall cast the first stone?"

10-18-2009, 04:07 AM	#92 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful for the letric slide grateful, its electric!, living sober that is! line up grat packer's __________________ *Rule 62*

10-18-2009, 07:59 AM	#93 (permalink)
Believe808 Miracles Happen Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9,977	ha ha, I love the electric slide!! grateful I am sober and can see things in a different light.

10-18-2009, 08:54 AM	#94 (permalink)
gravity where the light is Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,709	Grateful for Footprints: One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from his life flashed across the sky and he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to him and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life had flashed before him, he recalled that at the lowest and saddest times of his life there was only one set of footprints. Dismayed, he asked, "Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. I don't understand why, when I needed you most, you would leave me." The Lord replied, "My precious child. I love you and I would never leave you. during your times of trial and suffering when you saw only one set of footprints... That was when I carried you." __________________ It's times like these you learn to live again. It's times like these you give and give again. It's times like these you learn to love again. It's times like these time and time again. Times Like These - Foo Fighters

10-18-2009, 02:11 PM	#95 (permalink)
least bona fido dog-lover Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: eastern USA Posts: 23,513 Blog Entries: 31	Grateful to be feeling a bit better than this morning. Grateful for a visit from a friend. Grateful to be connected to the rest of the world just by sitting at my desk! The wonder of computers! __________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley

10-18-2009, 11:12 PM	#96 (permalink)
lulamay Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: England Posts: 89	How I agree with you, least! So grateful for the laptop Grateful for friends and family Grateful for the fantastic autumn days - those leaves are quite something!

10-19-2009, 05:35 AM	#97 (permalink)
Believe808 Miracles Happen Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9,977	grateful for a new day grateful the sun is shinning grateful for the gift of sobriety.

10-19-2009, 05:50 AM	#98 (permalink)
Rusty Zipper Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: my room in ct. Posts: 34,764	grateful for the third visit to the dentist, and more grateful going in free from fear. well, maybe not the financial one! ugh! __________________ *Rule 62*

10-19-2009, 06:45 AM	#99 (permalink)
gravity where the light is Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,709	Grateful for morning readings... Monday, October 19, 2009 You are reading from the book Touchstones If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart I could really see you. —David Brandon Trying to control and change the people around us creates great problems in our relationships. When people we love are expressing themselves, we're thinking about what we wish they would say, and it blocks us from hearing clearly. A need for safety and for a guarantee that we won't be abandoned urges us to manipulate the people we love. We know we have innocent motives. We say we only want what is best and that we are only trying to protect ourselves or be helpful. But we hide from the effects our actions have on our relationships. We seem to be more trapped in these self-centered behaviors with the ones we are closest to. We can change ourselves by slowly releasing our security grip on others. We can focus more on understanding what others are saying to us than on changing how they think and feel. Intimacy is clearly seeing each other and knowing the differences as well as the similarities. It requires that both people be allowed to walk on separate paths. I will release my grip on my loved ones and turn to my Higher Power for security and serenity. __________________ It's times like these you learn to live again. It's times like these you give and give again. It's times like these you learn to love again. It's times like these time and time again. Times Like These - Foo Fighters

10-19-2009, 09:03 AM	#100 (permalink)
least bona fido dog-lover Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: eastern USA Posts: 23,513 Blog Entries: 31	Grateful for a sunny day. Grateful to wake up sober and alive to the moment. Grateful that the 'dark' moods do pass. Grateful that I am able to do for myself and get around on my own power. __________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley

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