What are you grateful for in 2018?

Welcome to episode 269 of the recovery show.

This episode is brought to you by Susan, Mary, Charlotte, and Debbie.

They used the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Susan, Mary, Charlotte, and Debbie for your generous contributions.

This episode is for you.

We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness.

We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps few others can.

So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Before we begin, we would like to state that though at the Recovery Show, baby, in a 12-step program

we represent ourselves rather than the program.

During this show, we will share our own experiences.

The opinions expressed here are strictly those are the person who gave them.

Take what you like and leave the rest.

We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer and I'm host today.

Let's start with a reading from our daily reader one day at a time, this is May 5th.

I have much more to be grateful for than I realize. Too often I don't remember to give thought to all the things in my life that I could enjoy and appreciate.

Perhaps I don't take time for this important meditation because I'm too preoccupied with my

woes. I allow my mind to keep filled with grievances and the more I think of them

the bigger they loom. Instead of surrendering to God and His goodness I let myself

be controlled by the negative thinking into which my

thoughts are apt to stray unless I guide them firmly into brighter paths.

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