SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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I’m grateful for the sun coming up this morning. I’m grateful for my dad, his gentle life and for how much he loved us. I’m grateful for all the things he taught me. I’m grateful I can still feel his hand on my shoulder. I’m grateful to be sober today.
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The Four Horsemen of Recovery
Gratitude helped me see purpose and learning in everything around me. Gratitude slowed me down, showed me the emptiness of my expectations and often forced me to take a deep, slow breath. Replacing the lens of expectation with a grateful heart’s view of the world softens things and can replace resentment with love, understanding and even empathy. Gratitude is a healer of worlds broken apart and a sure way to orient oneself so as to follow the scant trail out of the woods.
Exploring Meditation Further
I'm grateful for an early morning run where the skies were clear enough to see the mountains and I was able to avoid the day's extreme heat. I'm grateful for the peace I felt while reading my book. I'm grateful for thinking about different forms of meditation and how I can incorporate them into my life. I continue to be very grateful for my new pairs of sneakers that've allowed me to enjoy my runs without any knee pain. I'm grateful for having healthy ways to deal with memories from my past that still haunt me on occasion. I'm grateful for thinking about that older, sicker version of myself with more grace and love. I'm grateful for putting matters into context in real-time as means of de-escalating my reaction. I'm grateful for the extra fluffy tortillas that made my homemade dinner absolutely delicious. I'm grateful for a meeting topic about the different, ever-changing ways faith gets integrated into our lives the longer we remain sober. I'm grateful for transforming justified ange…
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SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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