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I didn't get a chance to really talk tonight at the meeting got in there late. Been a few weeks since I have made an online meeting. I stayed a little in the room after the meeting. I listened to alot of things that were said. The thing is this. I am Grateful everyday for who I am now that I have this program. I am not perfect. I have made mistakes but the part I love about this program is that it has unconditional love. No one judges me for mistakes I have made in the past. Many of you are like me just want to make a better life for yourself and do it because you owe it to yourself to do it. For me that helps me because I know if I fall or if I have to start over again. It will be because I am new and learning at this. But also because my HP hasn't finished showing me yet and that I have to restart sometimes because I may have rushed threw things to fast and missed something. But for me that is what I am thankful about learning all the good and bad things that brought me here. I know that in my HP's time I will grow and learn. One step at a time.
Thanks for your support and for being here,
Angeleyes
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I believe in my HP to show me the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am happy you posted your share here. Sometimes I do the exact same thing!
For example -there’s something that I taken with me and wish to add on later -I may have read or heard at an online meeting, a face to face or here on the message board that remains and a light bulb moment occurs. So although I may not share at that time I can come here anytime and do just as you did. Oh, another is if I read a post take it with me/ thinking on it awhile and come back with a reply or private message to the member.
I too am grateful I am part of a family of choice, this program of support, unconditional loving in an ongoing journey with my HP. I agree, I feel I owe it to me to want a better life for me (*serenity, my main goal) I need to look for Progress Not Perfection. Just as you mentioned when (not ifI have a slip and fall) I am reminded that I am a work in progress, there is no manual that came with my life -but with the guidance and the positive of Al-Anon I have the will and courage for acceptance of myself. I came to AL-Anon so broken, there was not one aspect of my life that was not being affected by alcoholism when I walked thru the door at the end of my rope. I knew without a doubt, it was Step One that brought me to our program, I knew I was powerless over alcoholism and that my life had become unmanageable. Just as you mentioned working through not only the bad that has brought me here, I need to remind myself that there is definitely many many good things as well, so I am sure not to stare at the past too long and that serenity is possible with tools and my HP. I will never underestimate the power of a gratitude list when needed. Now living odat, trying to take each day as it comes being grateful for whatever it is.
I find your post positive and uplifting thank you again for this reminder to start my day off with an attitude of gratitude this morning.
So glad you are here and hope you keep returning to the message board and our chat room for those days you feel you may be falling or feeling like you need to start your day over again.
