If you stick around long enough you will see miracles every day.
The first I see each morning when I shave. I used to hate the guy in the mirror. All that changed due to the 12 steps of AA. Today the guy in the mirror is a pretty good fellow and I enjoy seeing him.
Next are the daily miracles at my home group. This morning for instance two of our members just lost siblings to death. One lost a sister and the other lost a brother. Instead of drinking in their time of grief they were at an AA meeting getting support and love from the group. If that is not a miracle i will eat the fez I am wearing in my picture.
Each and every one of us will become one of God's miracles in time providing we stick around long enough for it to happen.
Keep coming back!! Don't quit before your miracle happens
-- Edited by Larry_H on Wednesday 14th of October 2009 09:10:04 PM
That's also a funny offer to affirm a miracle too. That Fez looks kinda large with some hard to digest gizmos on it. You'll go to any lengths sets another standard for commitment. LOL
I cant always see my own progress....but I sure do love watching the progress of newcomers. It used to tick me off that people threw the word miracle around.....now I see em everyday. What a gift.
Great post, Larry, it is so good to be reminded to notice those daily miracles that I sometimes take for granted. My early ones were brushing my teeth without throwing up and being able to fart safely.
Today I only have to look around my tiny litte council house to see more riches than money can ever buy. Photgraphs of my family, especially my grandkids. You might be excused for thinking that you had walked into a nursery classroom when you enter my living room and kitchen, because the 3 grandkids artwork adorns the walls, and you know what you couldn't offer me a Gainsborough, Van Gogh or Monet painting in exchange for ONE of these works of art.
I get the greatest pleasure to see the grandkids walk in, throw off their coats and make straight for 'Nannans Toybox' where they know they will find lots of arty/crafty materials with which to do another masterpiece for Nannan.
In fact I have some waiting to be hung, so the art gallery will start wending its way up the staircase soon. My kids think I'm 'not wired up reight' but I get more pleasure out of it than anything I could ever buy with money I used to have.
Riches are not worth a thing if you are restless, irritable, discontent and downright bloody miserable, which I was. Before the programme, I bought things I didn't really need, with money I didn't really have to impress people I didn't even like.
In material terms, I have little, in terms of lifes riches which cost nothing, I am well in credit in the 'sobriety bank'
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