God does not ask your ability
Or your inability.
He asks only your availability.
--Mary Kay Ash
Reasons for gratitude are easy to find. If we're breathing, we can think of people hooked up to oxygen tanks. If our skin is smooth, we can remember people suffering in burn units. If we ran into a store for a minute to buy a gallon of milk today, we can remember the long lines people in other cultures endure for the same errand.
And we exist! That alone is miraculous! We have survived a chronic, often fatal disease. For many of us, life is better than before addiction, because we've found a new appreciation for life, a new depth and peace, a new calmness. And we can continue to grow in recovery each beautiful day that is given to us. Today babies across the world are being born, bringing millions of hopeful and exciting possibilities into our world.
Now, we're ready to take our place in the sun as one of the world's new hopeful possibilities. We live and breathe and feel and think, and we are watched over by a Higher Power who loves us and has a plan for our lives.
Today let me look for the good in my world and be thankful.
Everyday I am grateful....
I appreciate everything we have, knowing there are folks out there that are not as lucky as we....To have a roof over our heads, where it is warm, and food in our tummy's, and clothes...so many don't have....I try not to think to hard about it, cuz I do end up crying....On some of my worst days, I do find myself going back there and remembering.,.......it could be worse, and there are those out there that are worse off.......Thank-god I don't suffer like so many do!!!
I appreciate everything we have, knowing there are folks out there that are not as lucky as we....To have a roof over our heads, where it is warm, and food in our tummy's, and clothes...so many don't have....I try not to think to hard about it, cuz I do end up crying....On some of my worst days, I do find myself going back there and remembering.,.......it could be worse, and there are those out there that are worse off.......Thank-god I don't suffer like so many do!!!
Thanks Janet. How true.