The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
I had to break away from the board this morning which I decided was better for me than going to a meeting. It was cause the power of recovery can be found MIP and often this is as good or better than an open meeting. I have another chance this evening should not a surprise interfere. The surprise caused the break away as my grandson called me to say that our latest great-grandchild had just arrived. I'm hearing impaired and the little I got to hear suggested difficulties and being a lifetime member of crises and chaos my imagination took off with it and I was then thinking healing by lobotomy. I got there as quickly as I could and looking like I had the day off (spelled ruff) and there she was, another she, just as beautiful and perfect as the creators, my HP, original blue print. Not a blemish, not a squeek, just basking in the stage light of her entrance onto the stage called life. Four generations smilling and fawning and smiling and talking over each other and taking pictures and just being pleased as punch with the new gift. I stood back and looked at the goings on and remembered the family conversation last Thursday about our family tree and journey on how we have arrived and I felt grateful for what is taking place in my life and the life of my family instead of what has gone on before. Mahalo Akua...Thank you God for these gifts and the mind, body, spirit and emotional health to be present and graced.
Before I left this forum I was feeling much the same way with what goes on within the MIP Al-Anon forum and I was soooo hopeful for us. Free at last....FREE at last...THANK GOD I'M FREE AT LAST.
I got to hold her next I said!! They don't call me GREAT grampapa for nothing. Give her here. LOL
(((((Hugs)))))
-- Edited by Jerry F on Wednesday 13th of February 2013 05:44:37 PM
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.- Maya Angelo
Your joy indeed brought joy...how quickly and powerfully that energy travels. Bless those before and ahead...a new life reminds us we are not alone lots of love.. Paula
Congrads grandpa! Isn't it a beautiful thing that we get to participate in the inviting new people into this world today, instead of the alternative of having them taken out of ours because of our diease?
Isn't it a blessing that none of our grandchildren will ever have to see us as drunkards?
I have a 7 year old granddaughter that while I was visiting them in Texas a few years ago, for a family gathering and my alcoholic son brought in the beer, she put a hand on her hip, stuck it out to the side, and said.."don't give grandpa any of that stuff, he is talking and playing with me and I don't want him to look stupid like that stuff makes you look!" (out of the mouth of babes comes the truth).
I am forever grateful that she will never have to see me like that.
John
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" And what did we gain? A new life, with purpose, meaning and constant progress, and all the contentment and fulfillment that comes from such growth."
Congratulations Jerry - what I hear so loudly in your post is how lucky you feel to be in a place in life to be able to appreciate every wonderful thing you have in it. Here is to really living your life! Cheers!
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I am strong in the broken places. ~ Unknown
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another! ~ Anatole France
lots of love..