SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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I’m grateful for a relaxing day. I’m grateful for a trip to the farmers market. I’m grateful for all of the cooking. I’m grateful for what I can do. I’m grateful for occasional flashes of brilliance. I’m grateful for dark mornings and coffee. I’m grateful for Mozart on the turntable. I’m grateful to be sober today.
LAST WEEK ON TFLMS:
Changing Everything
This isn’t about being a doormat to fate or being happy with whatever crumbs fall from the table. This is about seeing that there are specks of beauty and joy in every tragedy. When worlds break apart, they always come back together again. We know this because of the teachings of the wise Steely Dan. While one can be focused on the breaking apart of said world, it is the coming back together again that forms the purpose and maybe even the miracle of that event. Things can’t begin again without endings and endings require beginnings.
Humility: A Healer Of Pain
I'm grateful for returning to meetings after a brief hiatus as I'm already feeling the relief of wisdom gained in these rooms impacting my life outside them. I'm grateful for the pithy advice someone gave on how to navigate pain. I'm grateful for reconnecting with a fellow I haven't seen in a while and making plans to meet up soon. I'm grateful for our internet outage forcing us to change our traditional nighttime activities oriented around the TV. I'm grateful for the reminder to send support to a newcomer who has been struggling. I'm grateful AA is generally a safe space of people who are genuinely trying to better themselves - it's truly a gift to have access to this on the regular. I'm grateful for a new game of intense catch with Harper that tires him out fairly quick. I'm grateful for exercising the tenet that esteemable acts build self-esteem. I'm grateful for taking stock of what is working in my life and truly feeling content about that rather than focusing on how the grass c…
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SUNDAY GRATITUDE EXTRAVAGANZA
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