I really did not know what meant to be truly grateful. I was talking to a friend back in December saying how grateful I was for this and that. However, in the next sentence over. I said some really negative things. He then said how could I have said that; when I am so grateful. So, he asked me to go home and write on being grateful and email him back. And, that changed my life.
In the 24 hour book today it talks about having gratitude. Now, above all we have to grateful for the fact that we are sober and clean for today. And, then we will see the other things in our life that we are truly grateful for. It works. Just staying in the frame of mind of being grateful for everything including for the bad things, because those things provide us lessons. Lessons if we are paying attention and want to learn something to improve our way of life. It works for me. Here is the prayer from the book this morning:
I pray that gratitude will bring humility.
I pray that humility will bring me to live a better life.
And, that is what I seek a better life. And, for me living in a state of gratefulness has allowed me to go through resentment that life brings with ease. It has brought me to a place that I am becoming humbled. This is a wonderful life that is now set before me. I pray that we all find that better life. God Bless you all.
Gratitude is very important for me , I spent so many years taking up head space with negative stuff that it is a full time job replacing it all with the positive. Some women in my area started a gratitude email group witch forces me to physicaly write a grat list every day, and then I also recive grat lists from 9 other women daily its really great to read them and share mine as well.
One thing I'm working on now is trying to be greatfull for the car accadent I had in 99' that still causes me pain every day. Sometimes I think if it wasnt for that day would I still be a workaholic unable to find the time to give to my loved ones, filling my self confidance with external stuff, and dam unhappy just going through the motions.
The pain and loss of my ability to work brang on such a great depression that I was able to hit my bottom and find NA. For that I am truly greatfull!
