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Attitide of Gratitude

I am so grateful for every little thing I have managed to accomplish today. I am grateful for every little thing I have been unable to accomplish today.

I am grateful for my body that I seem so hard on and quick to point out the imperfections.[Why do I do that? I chastize it and want it skinnier and yell at it and use food on it and still...it takes me where I need to go and does not retaliate with falling ill at every whisper's breath.]

I am grateful for not being drunk. I am grateful that I have to really remember and see newcomers to understand and remember how lost I used to be and feel. To understand that I am an alcoholic and cannot drink successfully.

I am grateful for my sobriety. It has led me into new worlds of healing, starting with not drinking. As a result I am grateful for knowing I have a self.

I am grateful I have the steps, a sponsor, a spiritual connection to something larger than my ego, a man in my life who is sweet, thoughtful, funny...and who seems to think I am the hottest thing happenin' since Atari in 1982. I am grateful to finally know and understand that love is not painful....starting with myself. I am grateful that more quickly I can recognize crazymakers and chaos; so that I can more readily get off at the next stop.

I am grateful for Louise Hay, Melody Beattie, Don Miguel Ruiz, Wayne Dyer, and Dr. Phil for sharing their solutions...

SO grateful for SoberRecovery - where I got sober and have managed to stay that way thus far. Grateful for my pals on here.

Grateful to understand on a cellular level that it's about an attitude of gratitude... that gratitude *is* an action I can express every moment with a thought or a word. That more will not be revealed to me until I have accepted my first revelations. Grateful it is a process. Grateful for the life I am living and in recognition for the gift that it is.