attitude of grattitude

[lala]

today i woke up in a greatful mood wich is very rare for me........just yesterday i was so ungrateful and the gift of bein sober is no two days are the same and i can change my attitude any time i want i try to make a grattitude list as often as i can becuse then i can see just how silly i can be when im fussing over stuff that means absolutley nothing i have many gifts in my life today god has been good to me when i was drinkin everything was about me me me and today only part of it is about me i am trying to have the attitude of gratitude today and that is blessing in its self the abitlity to be grateful and i thank my hp for the guidance and the love..............lala

[TxRainwater]

Good afternoon LaLa,
Was a nice surprise visiting with you on yahoo msgr yesterday. I had a great time with my son and his family at the b'day party for my now 3yr old granddaughter.
I am truly grateful that I could be a part of that. I have missed many such celebrations in my children and grandchildren's lives that I am EXTREMELY grateful today to be willing, able and ASKED to be a part of the one's that I love. I missed so much in the 'me me me' stage of this disease.
I am grateful this morning that I have some new sober memories made!
Thanks for the post hon.
Love and light,
Brenda

[Tiger]

i can see just how silly i can be when im fussing over stuff that means absolutley nothing

I can identify with Lala. In my early years around AA I had so much trouble my sponsor sent me to a physiatrist.

Each Thursday I would visit his office and of course drank between visits. I went for a year and can remember nothing except the first visit.

After I told him about myself, he said "your a victim of the MOM syndrome" I thought he meant I had a loving Irish mother who spoiled me. Instead he said "all your life you have been making mountains out of molehills"

Boy, was he reading my mail!.....everything in my life was a "federal case".

Today, I have a perspective on the "happenings" of life and tools to handle them as simple as "this too shall pass" or as profound as "what does this mean over a lifetime"

Tiger

[~graced~]

*chuckling* I have a wonderful psychologist who put it to me simply a good number of 24 hours ago...

"get off the dime and outta the desert"

Can't say that I necessarily liked it being put that way for me, liking it isn't required, eh?

That attitude of gratitude is something I try to embrace day after day. My first lesson in the program was 'there's more than one way to look at things' and that lesson's served me well in staying grateful and looking at more things from different angles.

Pretty grateful today just to have the opportunities that I have in front of me. G-d knows that I'm absolutely graced to have every single one of 'em!

[Teiger]

A week ago at an f2f meeting the topic was "attitude" and attitude of gratitude was brought up more than once around the room. I have been focusing more on that lately. I have so much to be grateful for and today I realize it is sometimes the little things that make me grateful also, like a sunrise, seeing a little child running through the park, or my dog happily coming to great me at the door when I come home from work.

Of course, the main thing I am grateful for is my sobriety, family, friends, having a home to come home to everyday and my relationship with my higher power.

Most days recently, I wake up and tell myself today is going to be a good day! When when people ask me at work what's the good word or how I am I tell them, "today is a good day." It is how my attitude starts out.........with gratitude. That is not to say that cannot change during the day, but I find that slowing down and asking my HP for help at those moments when my attitude changes helps immensely!

My two favorite sayings are "For 24 Hours I Can Do Anything" and "There is nothing in this world that God and I cannot handle!" I am grateful that I not only feel but live those two sayings today.

You all have a safe and sober day.

Love,

Karen