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Great job Scotter!

IO Storm

Congratulations. I have 13 months sober and nine months clean. Time has been good to us.

Love,

IO Storm

scootinbabe

i am grateful that i went to the meeting yesterday
i am grateful that i have my husband and my marriage
i am grateful for my three wonderful young kids
i am grateful for sunshine
i am grateful for whatever energy i have
i am grateful for God and for the willingness i have

thank you

AnnieUnix

WONDERFUL! Keep it up, it gets even better from here!

scootinbabe

i am grateful that i could access this site finally! (been on vacation)
i am grateful that even though it dumped snow on us, we are safe, warm and have all we need right here.
i am grateful that i still haven't had a drink.
i am grateful that i have a wonderful sponsor and a great husband.
i am soooo grateful for my adorable, bright, healthy children who make life worth living.
i am grateful that there are books and online support communities like this.

scootinbabe

now at 8 months sober, i am grateful for so many things:

knowing that the program works if you work it.
feeling my mind becoming clearer and my memory improving
understanding better how out of control my life and i was
seeing the world with clear eyes and fresh vision
hearing sounds without wincing
tasting and smelling things again

comprehending that i am at the beginning of what i hope is a very long journey: the rest of my life.

one day at a time

thank you to God

scootinbabe

thank you for

sunshine and warmer weather
the opportunity to BE in the moment
my health
my husband's health
my children
our school
our church
my sponsor
the program
my home
hope

scootinbabe

thank you

for aa
for my sponsor
for books to read
for my children to love
for my home
for peace here at home
for another day to live
for meetings to go to
for friends who i have and those i have yet to meet
for the opportunity to give up my resentment and hatred and anger and guilt and remorse and shame...
for the strength to do it
for wisdom as it comes
for discernment as i learn
for God
for serenity as i find it
for willingness
for the ability to REMEMBER to stay willing
for hope
for tomorrow

scootinbabe

i am grateful for Easter
i am grateful we made it to church as a family
i am grateful that my kids have grandparents to visit them on holidays
i am grateful that i did not drink today
i am grateful that another holiday passed with me sober

NYCGirl

I am greatful that my daugther could tell me what a wonderful Easter she had and I was sober so I was able to listen to every word she had to say.

scootinbabe

i am grateful that i am still alive
i am grateful that i am finally setting some boundaries for myself
i am grateful that i am actually seeing progress in me and my life
i m grateful for my children's school and their teacher
i'm grateful for my sobriety
i'm grateful that the sun is shining
i'm grateful for my wonderful, wonderful, wonderful children who are miracles to me everyday

thank you God

scootinbabe

made it my first nine months!

this is the longest i think i may ever have gone without a drink since i was 14. (over 35 years)

i have so much gratitude for this opportunity--hard as it may be.

TamTam

Thank you Scoot- I am so grateful for you and the E, S, & H you bring to so many lives every day. Love you!!!

IO Storm

Scoot! Wonderful...go girl!......

(We are still girls....age ain't no thang...just born in

sobriety terms...huh?)





Love,



Sherry

scootinbabe

oops. i'm only 42 so i may have somehow skewed my math there--42-14=over 25 years., not 35, but still 9 months sober and still a "go girl"! thanks io and tam.

this is where i at--posted this on momma's thread but it articulates fairly well the place i'm at:
...this journey i'm on is surprising me in many ways. recently, it dovetailed into a visit with my sister, who remembers more about my early childhood than i do. spiritually and emotionally, i'm in an uncertain place here. but it is a new place, one that i don't think i would have found without having had the past few months to prep me. it's good. (i think) but not by any means comfortable.


truly, i've been itching in my skin. memories coming up. emotions i don't know how to feel/sort/analyze--and more desperately--get rid of. i know i'm trying to do the right things. i know what to do: turn it up to God, pray, go to meetings, call my sponsor. but it doesn't make it easier. it's that damn path. you know, the one you need to walk down to get where you want to go. and you know you need to go through it and can't avoid it any longer, but darned if it doesn't suck. can't run around it. can't put blinders on. can't drink. what do you do? how do you walk into it? what do you do with all this crap that you kick up along the way? i'm trying. i'm trying to remain willing. i'm trying to do the right things. but these emotions are raw. i'm so vulnerable and need so much someone to hold me and make it better. i'm so darned tired of holding all together by myself. but i've got to.

i'm grateful that at least i can see that now. i'm grateful that God is somehow giving me the things i need as i need them. i'm glad that i can ask Him to take away my fear. my shame. my unwilling and scared inner child who just wants to be kept from the pain, but now has a chance to come out again and risk being hurt again or perhaps finding a better outcome.

thank you for my sobriety as of this minute, this hour, this day, week, month. thank you.

IO Storm

Scootin'

I am thankful for your sobriety this minute, hour, days....

So many are slippin'.......we don't have to.

It is not a requirement.

Love you sister....



Sherry

scootinbabe

the other thing that i want to mention is all the old hymns that pop up in my head at off-times. it's like the aa slogans that sound so silly on first listen but then pop up in your head months later and make sense.

i've always heard "leaning on the everlasting arms" but now it's others too. this one spontaneously came up while i was driving kids to school. certain of the lyrics seem a bit morbid by today's standards but the message still rings true.

THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD

Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
Would you over evil a victory win?
There's wonderful power in the blood.

chorus:
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Would you be free from your passion and pride?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide;
There's wonderful power in the blood.
repeat chorus

Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
Sin stains are lost in its life giving flow.
There's wonderful power in the blood.
repeat chorus

Would you do service for Jesus your King?
There's power in the blood, power in the blood;
Would you live daily His praises to sing?
There's wonderful power in the blood.
repeat chorus

Words & Music by Lewis E. Jones, 1899
Jones wrote this song at a camp meeting at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.

scootinbabe

i thank God that i made it to the meeting today. was someone's first anniversary and she shared a story quite similar to mine. emotional.

but i feel good making meetings and i'm grateful for that feeling and grateful that i'm making it to meetings!

grateful for my children
grateful for life
grateful for my dear aunt and sister

paddy4

Scootin this thread has inspired me thank you and SO well done for where you are now

IO Storm

Scootin' this is for you....and me...

What a fellowship
What a joy divine
Leaning on the everlasting arms

What a blessedness
What a peace is mine
Leaning on the everlasting arms..

Leaning, leaning
Leaning on the everlasting arms

Leaning on Jesus
Leaning on Jesus
Leaning on the everlasting arms

I remember most of the old hyms.....

Love ya.



Sherry

(can't give credit that was from memory)