Daily Reflections reading May
21st
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.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on May 21st Reading
My body was burnt out from the use and abuse alcohol. I
thought stopping was enough, I was instantly cured just stop drinking and
everything will be back to normal, I soon found out that recover overnight,
twisted thinking, and depression, just don’t vanish in a twinkling of the eye
It took a lot of action on my part to find some kind of
sanity, I did become convinced that a spiritual way of living is a powerful way
to restore me to sane thinking, because I have began my recovery from serious
drinking, I am one of the miracles of recovery
This is the very first blessing I have been given the gift
of sobriety by working the 12 steps into my life the next true blessing is I
did take that year they all talked about in meeting one year to find yourself
before getting into a relationship
Another blessing is I found that I had a real relationship
with my kids, they were a big part of my new life, I became a real father to
them listen to them and shared in their lives young minds are far more forgiven
that adults
Children seem to better understand unconditional love mainly
because they always gave it and were not corrupted by society, my kids felt
this new love I had for them right away, wish I could just list all the
blessing I have been given thru the years my relationship to my kids was the
best blessing
We used to lay on
the bed and talk about how I had changed, how God has given us a second chance at
being together, I remember taken the kids camping and laying out in a field
looking up at the stars, I pointed out the north star and told them simply that
is God looking down upon us
Then they asked me
to tell them the story of how God had come down and reached into that deep hole
I dug myself into, he reached down gave me His hand and pulled me out of the
that deep hole He know I could not get out on my own I needed His help
Another great blessing, I found my faith in this higher
power I learned about in step two, yes today the God of my understanding, the
God of pure love, gave me the way out of the horrors of my past He did pull me
out of the pit of despair I was in for so many years
Dec 22, we were
bless with a new grand daughter Ashley, newest love of our life Sandy and I now
have 16 grand children and three great grand children non of this could have
happened if we did not get sober and remain sober
First Things First, Live and Let Live, Easy Does It, learn
to listen so you can listen to learn these are the slogans I most remembered in
my early sobriety and they are a blessing on how to live our lives today
Bless you Al M
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