A List of Blessings
One exercise that I
practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings... As Bill
Sees It, p. 37
What did I have to
be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I
was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound mind and
body. I went through seventy-four years of living right up to the present moment.
The list ran to two pages, and took two hours to compile; I included health,
family, money, A.A. – the whole gamut.
Every day in my
prayers, I ask God to help me remember my list, and to be grateful for it throughout
the day. When I remember my gratitude list, it's very hard to conclude that God
is picking on me.
This was the topic for our meeting this morning. We all had a lot to be grateful for. Two members without even a day of sobriety
were grateful for the AA program and for having a place to go such as the Alano
Club. Sanity is being restored to our
lives—sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly.
It will always return if we work for it.
I have learned a lot about gratitude in the last five years. I have both book knowledge from reading experts
such as Robert Emmons and from writing this Gratitude blog. My life is miraculously better than how it
used to be.
I am grateful for my sobriety, my vastly improved relationships with
others and for my knowledge and feelings of gratitude.
People who are grateful seem to be able to sleep better at night then the greedy bastards who think the world revolves around them..They are in for a shock when they have a crisis of anykind..I have a half sister that thinks she is the center of the universe, so I don't have anything to do with her at all, I feel sorry for her, she is not kind and loving and never thought to be grateful for anything..How can anyone on this earth think that way..Love your blog, you are courageous in your daily fight to keep sober and help others to do so with your blog, grateful for your blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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