with the pain of this isn’t what I was hoping for, this isn’t what I want, comes being grateful for what my life is today. the kind of gratitude that lets go of a need for change in this moment. the pain of knowing that how I am has harmed another gnaws at me.
- grateful I have enough to eat
- grateful I have shelter
- grateful I have relative health
- grateful I have a partner who loves me very much
- grateful I get to love her
- grateful I have an opportunity to make at least some very small positive difference in the world.
- grateful I’ve had the opportunities given to me
- grateful I’m sober and don’t want to be intoxicated.
- grateful I was able to get sober and stay that way for 27 years.
- grateful I have clothes to wear and a car to drive
- grateful to be alive another day