GRATITUDE
August 1, from “Strengthening My Recovery” daily reader
“The gratitude we feel is limitless.” BRB p. 292
“Often we may have said or thought to ourselves at a meeting, “I had so much going on that I almost didn’t come, but I am so grateful I did because I heard just what I needed.” As our recovery progresses, we are thankful for what may seem to some of us like divine timing. We feel grateful for the right meeting topic at the best possible moment. Often a fellow traveler with just the right message will show up when we are ready, or perhaps the message has been there all along and we’re finally ready to hear it. Sometimes we may see a person only once, but what they say or demonstrate is exactly what hits home for us at that moment.
All around us we begin to notice our needs are being met when we’re ready to recognize what is being placed before us. We may even be lucky enough to receive something we just want. Whatever we receive, it will be a gift.
If something is presented that we don’t want or need, we have the choice to let it go and turn it over. Sometimes we are just meant to have the information so we can pass it on to someone else who needs that very gift.
On this day I am aware of the wonderful gifts that appear when I need them. I am grateful for the opportunities they present for personal growth.”
My Experience:
How grateful I am for the rooms of recovery. When I first started I had been going to meetings for a number of weeks and started to feel somewhat connected and more than a little relief. However a program elder showed up one night that had not been there the entire time I had been coming as this person was traveling. This person said something in the meeting that night that shook me to my core. Over the course of my time coming to this meeting she has subsequently repeated these words on multiple occasions and I have come to realize that when we programmers repeat something it is because someone that day needs to hear it. What this person relayed was said so genuinely and earnestly that it literally stopped my thought process and caused me to gasp. The words were, “because of this program, today, I live a life beyond my wildest dreams.” I remember looking over at that person and thinking to myself, “I want that.” Those words keep me coming back week after week. I am so grateful for this person for providing this nugget of experience, wisdom and clarity. You will never know what you need to hear until you hear it. Join me!
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