Sober since April 6, 2006

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

wednesday is spelled funny

Today started out kind of weird. I was rushing out to my car to get to work on time, and found that the neighborhood kids pelted every car on the street with eggs. I gave them Halloween candy last night, dammit. Yeah. Thanks. Stupid little brainless bastard punkass smacktards ...

I got so pissed. (That's proof that I'm turning into an old geezer!) But as I drove to work in stop-and-go traffic, I read out of Twenty Four Hours a Day:

"Hope is justified by many right nows, by the rightness of the present. Nothing can happen to me that God does not will for me. I can hope for the best, as long as I have what I have and it is good."

Nothing really felt "right" about having my car vandalized. But I guess the "rightness of the present" is supposed to encompass the entire present -- not just the individual things that bother me.

Yeah, my car got pelted. But at least I HAVE a car. And the rest of my life is getting better every day. I'm sober. I have an amazing family. I have a good job. I'm finally reaching out to people in AA. I have a relationship with a Power greater than myself, and He is holding my hand through this difficult transitional phase called "life".

And here I am complaining about what again? It's always the little things that knock me off balance ...

Today, I'm grateful for ...
  • being 210 damn days sober
  • making it to my homegroup meeting tonight
  • AA buddies online and off
  • my cool family
  • my cute & affectionate dog: "God, please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am."
  • my patient supervisor at work
  • being allowed to listen to our own music at work (w/headphones)
  • feeling sleepy enough to sleep ... I hope
  • God, because He has a purpose for my life, even when I don't see it

5 comments:

Trudging said...

Smacktards, that is a new one for me.

An Irish Friend of Bill said...

Hi tk! Yeah! high class problems, we call them. reminds me of the saying 'I complained because I had no shoes, Until I met a man who had no feet.'

dAAve said...

As a teenager, I did the same thing, and worse. And we were always drinking and/or geting high.

What comes around, goes around.

Jackson said...

thanks for the laughs, sorry for the expense, though. Hehe.

You're doing quite well , I see.

JJ said...

I love when you cuss.
jj