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What are you grateful for in your life ? I was reading the message board and there seems to be lots of sadness so i thought i would ask for your share on ESH in Graditude in your life!!
Here is what I am grateful for: 1.My Hp whom I call GOD with out him I would have nothing.... 2.My Husband of 18 yrs 3.My Children 12,8 4.All of you in this chatt room 5.MY Awesome and inspiring Sponser 6.My recovery for myself 7.My mother in law who I dearly love with all my heart. 8.For being able to be at peace when there is nothing but chaos all around me. 9.For being able to look at myself and see my assets instead of sitting on my pitty pot and yelling out all me defect and leting them be my focus point in my life.... 10. For being willing to let go of my defects and using them as a postive in my life instead of negitive ones. 11.For forgivness,keeping the focus on me,and for hope of healing my damage heart. 12.For finally learning who I am and what i like to do in life. 13.For being willing to let go of resentments and blaming others for my poor choices in life. 14.For Al-anon almost 2 year anniversary coming up WOW 15.For all of your Experience Strenght and Hope that has truely touched my life more then anyone of you can even begin to imagin Thanks so much all of you...
Well I could go on forever but i think I will stop there for now!! As I read back over my Graditude list I am filled with love and peace of the program!!!!
((((bubbles))))) great post and great idea. You know, i do a graitude list quite often, often times at night when i cant get to sleep and my head starts running away with me. Someone at my f2f meeting gave me the awesome idea of doing an alphabedical graitude list. 3 things per letter, telling hp ty for them all the whole time. It is soooo awesome cause you'd be amazed at how your head runs through all the things you have to be grateful for, and the whole time your talking to your higher power, thanking him for them all! And to top it off, i bore myself to sleep with it all! rofl i dont think i've made it past H without falling asleep first. Great way to fall asleep i tell ya, cant think of a better way for me.
A, ty god for apricots (they're delicious), ty hp for Al-anon, what a gift this program is, ty hp for my alcoholic, without him i wouldn't be here.
B ty hp for batman my cat heehee Yawwwnnnn.... i think i'm gonna go rest
Thank you for this post! To me, a gratitude list is more than a game. It is the bedrock of my relationship with my HP. I also try to think about the things I am grateful for before I go to sleep at night. And the list includes some very small, well, not really small things, but things like that I have a home and I've had 3 meals and I have a wonderful husband, and for the beautiful trees blowing in the wind outside my window, and for a chlld I met that day, and for the times I laughed during the day. My mind is filled with so much junk, that it is really good for me to focus on what I have in abundance! Then I also give thanks for the things in my life that are causing me difficulty, because I know I am growing because of those things. I also thank God for the people who are the ones who are "under my skin!" Blessings to you and for all of you out here. Your being here helps my recovery every day. mebjk
I really needed this post this evening. My soul is so heavy. It is always good to have someone bring me back to program. I've often said when I lose my serenity I'm either trying to control something/someone or I've lost my gratitude.
Gratitude is my problem today. I'm wishing for something that just isn't - instead of being grateful for what is. There is much to be grateful for. I think I'll start climbing out of my hole now. Thank you (I'm off to work on my list)
What an inspiring post thank you for your esh and the effort you put into this post. I can totally obsess on the negative and not be able to even name any positive I am so mired in deprivation at times. I do have things to be grateful for.
I needed to be reminded to be grateful, and to try to see the good that can be found if only I look.
I have been working a lot of overtime for over a month now. I am grateful that I have a job that I like to do and an understanding boss who appreciates all my hard work and is already telling me that as soon as I finish this project he expects me to take some time off and relax.
I have been struggling with some of the grief that I am still feeling over the end of my marriage and the double whammy of losing my spouse and my step children who moved away and whom I havent seen in months now. I am grateful that I have my Al-Anon family and friends who understand what I am feeling and who are there to support me and make me laugh, and love me. I am grateful that God got me to Al-Anon when He did, I truly don't know what I would be today without it...or if I even would be. I am grateful for the understanding, peace and love of this program that has given me so much hope for the future, and so much happiness and joy in the present.
I am so very grateful for the special friendships I have made on this web site. What a true Miracle this place has been for me. I can honestly say I have friends all over the world! Isn't that amazing? I am so grateful for this web site for those that created it and those that have kept it going and growing. I am so grateful to those of you that were there for me when I first came to this place. For the loving, kindness that was offered to me 24/7. For those members that are no longer here and for those who continue to be here....Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am grateful for this amazing world that God has given us to live in filled with so much beauty. And I am most grateful of all, that He has answered my prayers to end the way my life used to be. He may have taken a different path to do so that I had hoped for at the time, but I am grateful that now I can understand that what is, just is..and that His will be done not mine. He has much bigger plans for me than I ever had for myself.
I am grateful for my health, for God always being there for me, being able to get up each morning to see the sunrise, my job, my kitty and my black gold fish, my friends and family and for getting involved with Alanon...dont' think I would have got through everything without it.
Today I know I have much to be thankful for and I thank you Bubbles for the great post!
WOW (((((((((((((((((everyone)))))))))))))))) thank you so much I am crying now in heartfelt love and in peace of thankfulness for all of you in my life!!
Thanks Bubbles. I think of gratitude as 'great attitude'. If I'm not feeling 'great' I know a good place to start looking for solutions is in my own attitude.
Easier said than done but it is ALWAYS worth the effort. The peace, serenity and understanding I get is immeasureable when I go through the sometimes ugly or painful process of looking at me. Once I've taken that step, I emerge feeling freed. I'm more grounded and empowered. I realise all over again, I need the eyes to see what I have to be grateful for and the heart to feel it. I have choices today, I can be as happy as I make up my mind to be. If I'm dealing with difficult circumstances, I trust that I will grow for having felt the pain. I will be a wiser,stronger person for having lived through it. I know when I journey into myself, I don't do it alone, my HP walks with me and has given me the tools to deal with whatever I may find there. My Al-anon friends and the program often have helped me 'heal my inner hurts'.
I have sooooo much to be grateful for. I NEVER believed I would EVER be grateful for the alcoholics in my life but without them I wouldn't have this program today or all I've gained from it. I don't say never,ever anymore! My HP knows what's best for me and sees the bigger picture, after all its not my 'grand design'. Just one more thing to be grateful for!
With love and heartfelt gratitude for all my blessings (and my trials)
(I'm off to work on my list
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