So great to be grateful!!

Today i'm greatful for my son's birthday.  He's six today!

And I'm also thankful that my surgury is only 20 sleeps away and my new life is coming soon!!

04/15 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Rare are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or, seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it.  One reason is that they are abetted in their blindness by a world which doesn't yet understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.  The dictionary defines sanity as "soundness of mind."  Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his or her destructive behavior, can truly claim soundness of mind.  HAVE I COME TO BELIEVE, AS THE SECOND STEP SUGGESTS, THAT A POWER GREATER THAN MYSELF CAN RESTORE ME TO SANITY?

TODAY I PRAY
May i see that my own behavior as a practicing alcoholic, a drug-user or a compulsive over-eater, could be described as "insane."  For those still actively addicted, admitting to "insane" behavior is well-nigh impossible.  I pray that I may continue to abhor the insanities and inanities of my addictive days.  May others like me recognize their problems of addiction, find help in treatment and in The Program, and come to believe that a Higher Power can restore them to sanity.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
He restoreth my soul.

Happy Hump Day..

Today I am grateful..

For no tickets..

That Mikal is going to be okay..

For good doctors..

For small victories..

That I am still Mon..

04/08 REFLECTIONS FOR THE DAY
Time after time, we learn in The Program, newcomers try to keep to themselves "shoddy facts" about their lives.  Trying to avoid the humbling experience of the Fifth Step, they turn to a seemingly easier and softer way.  Almost invariably, they slip.  Having persevered with the rest of The Program, they then wonder why they fell.  The probable reason is they never completed their housecleaning.  They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.  HAVE I ADMITTED TO GOD, TO MYSELF, AND TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THE EXACT NATURE OF MY WRONGS?

TODAY I PRAY
That I may include all of the sleaziness of my past, my cruelities and my dishonesties, in a complete moral inventory of myself.  May I hold back nothing out of shame or pride, for the "exact nature" of my wrongs means just that -- a thorough and exact recounting of past mistakes and character flaws.  We have been provided with an appropriate "dumping-ground."  May I use it as it was intended.  May all my costumes of the past, be foundation "fill" on which to build a new life.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Trash can be a foundation for treasures.

Happy Tuesday..

Today I am grateful..

That I am not going to let the flat tire that I have on my car right now bother me in the wrong way.. It's just a flat, Ramon.. I have to repeat that to myself..

For new found friends..

For being accepted..

For text messages..

That I am still here..