From Hawaii/Hawaii...The country/The Island. I went to "The" meeting...my Sunday, AA at the Bay, home group as I do almost every Sunday for the past 16 years. I left home with gratitude for the gifts I have...1. I'm home in the land and culture I was created in and that is huge especially considering this is where my Higher Power wants me. I left home with gratitude for the 2. spouse/wife/partner/lady I am married to...she is working in a laundry for the hotel she does the books for. She took the extra work because it buffers us from the economic turndown and the bank which is attempting to get us out of our house. She is not from Hawaii and has, for 17 years made this her home while at the same time her heart faces North East to Fresno California and her family tree. I left home with gratitude for the phone call the day before yesterday 3. wanting to know if I will do a small remodel; from a prior client...(economic turn down connected?). I left home grateful 4. for blue skies during a period of 60+ days of rain. I left home grateful that the 5. Police Assault on 11/8 didn't terminate me and that I've lived to make the internal investigation which might create change here. This was a program practice event...start to stop and a trial for the mutual relationship between my Higher Power and myself. It will go on until it is done and hopefully we will all learn and things will change. I left home 6. so very grateful that had it not been from the persistent grace of Akua...my higher power and the fellowship of both the Al-Anon Family Groups and Alcoholics Anonymous I would have missed the last 32+ years of this life and all of the spiritual experiences which were available to me. I am grateful that my Higher Power and the fellowship let me have my oppositional defiance and never allowed it to deter them from touching my mind, body, spirit and emotions...I am free at last...free at last; Thank God...I'm free at last.
I am grateful that I have had this gratitude this Christmas and every other day I've been sober before this Christmas. AA, Al-Anon, MIP are a light before my travels...what a gift!! I'm also grateful for the other light I received from my spouse which hangs at the end of a key chain which holds the key to my truck. I won't leave home without them all.
Ho`omaika`i....Be blessed and Mahalo Nui...Thank you much.
Hey Jerry F, I am grateful that you are here sharing your insight and wisdom through the good and bad parts of life, and what it hands us. Mele Kalikimaka! Tom
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"You're in the right place. That's the door right there. Turn around."
yES JERRY ,thank you for contiuing to share from your heart and your ESH! .Just For Today we have another opportunity to be all our Higher Power intended us to be, be of maximum service to that God and others...3rd and 11 step meditiations before I rise from bed after the miracle of God opening my eyes once again.Today I will seek even more diligently that "concious contact" with my God and let it seep thru my being giving God the glory!! Pax Domini as an old altar boy used to reply to..PEACE BE WITH YOU!!!
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Selfishness-self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
