Thank you all!
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Thank you all!
Hi yall - I have been living in pink cloud world for the last week or so...got a handle on the new job and I love it! Everything seems so beautiful...I love fall weather and I am appreciating it like never before...the blue skies, the beautiful trees, everything. I was riding on the tractor this morning at work and everything just felt...right. It has been so long since I felt that way...it reminds of me of a quote (don't know where it came from) "God is in His Heaven and everything is right with the world". When that thought came to me, I got tears in my eyes, and as I was doing the hay bales (fairly mindless work
), I blessed each and every one of you with prayer for helping me to get to this point. I am going to my meetings and listening intently (still not sharing too much, but getting there) and I hope I can learn and grow and just plain old live sober long enough to really be able to give back to everyone here and in my group. Thanks - even though I don't have a lot to post right now and I don't have a lot of advice to share, I am reading every day and grateful to everyone who shares. HUGS!
), I blessed each and every one of you with prayer for helping me to get to this point. I am going to my meetings and listening intently (still not sharing too much, but getting there) and I hope I can learn and grow and just plain old live sober long enough to really be able to give back to everyone here and in my group. Thanks - even though I don't have a lot to post right now and I don't have a lot of advice to share, I am reading every day and grateful to everyone who shares. HUGS!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Upland, CA
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Your message and experience, strength, and most of all HOPE are why they keep holding those meetings that so many DON'T need. Imagine that, as we say in the mountain west meetings and I suspect some other places as well. "I'll take another 24!" Here in So. Cal. it is the reason that we clap after someone shares.
Keep coming back no matter what.
Jon
Keep coming back no matter what.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Thank you Jomey! I do not care if someone has 1 day sober or 30 years, what you just shared helps us all either want or remember the exciting beauty of early sobriety, those moments when one suddenly notices the flowers growing in the median strip for the first time even though they have driven by it 1,000 times before and failed to see them. The sweetness of hearing & seeing the beauty of the world that had surrounded them the whole time and they did not know was there the whole time they were drinking.
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Thanks guys! I am so grateful for your support. It's really cool being just "me" again. I like things being routine and safe and calm right now. It's really nice to be blessed with this time in my recovery. I feel like I am living again too, not like in the first few weeks when all I could do was "recover". I know that each day brings challenges, and I still have a corner of fear that the pink cloud is going to be pulled out from underneath me some how, but sometimes I think that is just HP reminding me about what got me here - you guys & AA & family support. Can't do without any of 'em!!!! Love you guys!
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Thanks for sharing Jomey, and enjoy that pink cloud for all it's worth! Life will still throw us curveballs, but in sobriety I've got the spiritual strength to face any difficulties that come my way. So happy to hear you're doing well!
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Well, since you asked...I get to thank people twice because I am the most sincere, caring, gracious, thankful, grateful person to ever grace this website
he he he he he! Or maybe it is because my HP knows that I am one person who would never have made it this far and would be lost now without you guys and therefore blessed me with the "double thanks"!
All I can really say is....THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!:joke:
he he he he he! Or maybe it is because my HP knows that I am one person who would never have made it this far and would be lost now without you guys and therefore blessed me with the "double thanks"! All I can really say is....THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!:joke:
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