Another exercise that I practice
is to try for a full inventory of my blessings
and then for a right acceptance
of the many gifts that are mine -- both temporal and spiritual.
Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude.
When such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly
affirmed and pondered,
it can finally displace the natural tendency
to congratulate myself on whatever progress
I may have been enabled to make
in some areas of living.
I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart
cannot entertain great conceits.
When brimming with gratitude,
one's heartbeat must surely result
in outgoing love,
the finest emotion that we can ever know.
Bill W., March 1962

Thought to Ponder....

A grateful spirit comes from all we've been given ...
and all we haven't been given.

Recovery Related Acronym

H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.