Grateful for a roof over my head
Grateful for food
Grateful for my wifey
Grateful for all of you guys
Grateful for my dog
Grateful for my sobriety 
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Grateful I slept in this morning.
Grateful I’m sober and not hungover.
Grateful for my morning routine.
Grateful for the quietness of the morning.
Grateful for my coffee.
Grateful for God.
Grateful for my blessings.
Grateful I got to video chat with my old friend in London on Boxing Day.
Grateful she recommended the movie The Holiday. I loved it so much.
Grateful for all my wonderful memories of living in London.
Grateful I got to text with my best childhood friend yesterday.
Grateful for the 3 very long distanced friends I have, and their spouses, and the friendly feeling of comfortably talking or seeing them like it was just yesterday when it’s actually been forever.
Grateful my sister and I are back on good terms.
Grateful for all the happy memories of my parents and that I have no regrets.
Grateful for all the healthcare workers.
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Beautiful. Treasure this 
Brian
@I.cant.We.can
“I’m greatful I heard from my mom who sent an email already today.”
My mom and I were email buddies forever. Snail mail before that. I still check my email first thing in the morning even though she is not around to write me any more.
And I think of her almost every time I check my email. I mean email is so old and no one I know even uses it for communication anymore. Treasure this
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I am grateful that I have the presence of a clear mind, so that I am able to work out my issues and hang ups. If I were still living that druggie lifestyle, i would not be able to do this.
I am grateful for @Dazercat and his posts every morning in this thread. They really inspire me.
I am grateful for rollerblades. @Devinney 
I am grateful for the ability to finally see beauty in the world, after so long of seeing nothing but the worst in people and situations I found myself in.
I am grateful for the strength in my body. Im in better shape now than i was as a teenager, and only a few years ago i was wasting away, chemicals toxifying my body.
I am grateful for this forum, which has given me so much to look forward to and enjoy. I love talking to you guys!
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thanks for the reminder. I’m very grateful for my mom. she’s been scared after having a tumor removed from her brain a couple years back. Scared cause she feels vulnerable to covid because of that and her age. I’m greatful she survived and I’m greatful that she’s less stressed knowing I’m not out drinking and drugging. I’m very greatful that shes had a tremendous recovery herself from brain surgery. It has inspired me to put forth a more concentrated effort on getting better and for that I am greatful. You won’t see this but I love you Mom.
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Dec.27.
My day got underway before I could gratitude-check-in!
Grateful I had a good sleep and woke early.
Grateful for the pals calling and checking in on me, even if it interrupts my morning routine! 
Grateful that I don’t feel alone this holiday, but am enjoying the quiet time to me and the connection to everyone virtually and on the phone, and to this community too that means so much to me.
Grateful that it’s Sunday and that i have one more delicious week of M-time - sober - before going back to work.
Grateful that I still have this fun and heartwarming task of sorting through a few more boxes of things of my folks - even emails my Mom and Dad printed out and saved! @Dazercat and @I.cant.We.can. Finding these gems is like spending time with them. 
Always, always, grateful for my dear M and D, for the life they gave me and who they are to me.
Grateful for another day. And back to it now! 
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As this year comes to an end I am overwhelmed by how grateful I am for my sobriety. The days (505 of them now) continue to climb and I’m getting further and further away from the misery and shame and disgust of living in addiction and it gets harder to remember what living in that hell was like. Life keeps happening, bad shit continues, and every so often I wish I could turn off again. I wish I could drink myself to that glorious numbing point where all the noise fades away and I could just face my problems later.
But that lie is obviously not my drinking reality.
This year I lost my home of the last four years and moved in with my partner’s parents. I moved back to the state where I experienced all of my trauma. I am sharing a home with people that don’t believe in covid. I am around family members that taught me my unhealthy drinking habits. I am navigating how to bond with them without alcohol for the first time in my life. I am setting boundaries for the first time in my life. I am unable to control what resurfaces and when. Sometimes just driving down the street can feel like being hit in the face with a trauma brick. I am tired. I am uncomfortable. I am lonely.
And I am sober! Life is particularly challenging right now but it is also so beautiful and so full of possibilities because I am sober. I can face all of this shit and more importantly I can not make it worse by drinking. I can continue loving myself, I can be proud, I can take care of business, I can accept where I am at AND work on changing it.
Sobriety does not fix or heal everything. It does not take away challenges. It doesn’t make my life perfect. But it does give me what I need to create the life I want, inside and out.
Grateful, so so grateful for sobriety!
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I am grateful for another day sober, not hungover, sitting here in the morning leisurely doing my morning devotionals with Benson on my lap and a fire in the fireplace and my pretty Christmas tree all lit up.
Grateful I woke up on my own at 6:30. I like when dark turns to light.
I’m grateful it’s trash day and that I live in a world where someone comes to my house and picks up my trash and then it’s gone.
I’m grateful we had a nice chat last night with our best friends in Austin.
Grateful for all the football and basketball this very long weekend and that I got to enjoy it.
And I’m grateful my wife was enjoying it too.
I’m grateful the old dog and cat are good.
I’m grateful I did, and have been doing, my morning feeding of the herd with a smile on my face cuz they’re so damn fucking cute, as they bash into me or make a silly noise or just look at me with longing love in their eyes. I know they just want me to feed them, but it’s such a special time in the morning with me and them.
I’m grateful for TS and all the time I’ve spent on here this week during the Holidays. It’s help me and maybe I’ve helped someone. Sometimes I worry I spend too much time on here during the day. But hey! At least I’m sober. So I got that going for me.
I’m grateful for all the healthcare workers.
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That’s some wonderful gratitude right there Jane
May God bless you and keep you safe and healthy.
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Good morning TS
@Ceeds @Dazercat @Torhar Jane so great and inspiring, trauma is exhausting and finding the strength to share and be greatful still …thank you . Eric I love when dark turns to light. It is one of the big motivators for me particularly when I see it in people at meetings or treatment and knowing how that transformation continues to shape my life. Torhar, lost time and damage to make up for, this statement of desire is a perfect example of light finding its way into a person and their life. Be patient and kind to yourself is what I attempt and hope that for you too.
I’m greatful for my continuing understanding of a higher power. I’m greatful for my family as they have allowed me back in there lives. I’m greatful for my friends. I’m greatful for Wayside and Holmes house. I’m greatful for the 12 steps and the changes they have brought to my world. I’m greatful for the surgeons who fixed my back, it still get a sore but I’m walking. I’m greatful for the health care workers just in general as my dear friend Eric reminds me of on a daily basis, bless your heart and soul sir. I’m greatful for my housemates and sober living community. I’m very, very greatful for my recovery. I’m greatful that I get another service opportunity by becoming a key holder for my weekly NA meeting. I’m greatful for the nature sounds that are playing through the tv in the background as I write this morning. I’m greatful for the coffee I’m in my mug. I’m greatful to go get food soon.
I’m greatful that i have the time or make the time to do my gratitude cause it helps me and reading others truly helps too.
God bless you all. 
&
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Dec.28.
Grateful for my job, but oh I love waking up on a Monday morning when I don’t have to work!
Grateful for quiet time in the early morning to read, journal, do a bit of slow yoga, turn on the news and check in here too…
None of this would happen if I woke up hungover. Super grateful to wake up hangover free.
Grateful for this community and the support it provides. There’s no way I’d be having a sober holiday, even if I wanted to, if I were going it on my own…
Grateful for my dear M and D and the life they still give me, just because of who they were and how they lived.
Grateful for another day.
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I copied this in into my journal! Brilliant. Thank you for the honesty in your post - you’ve obviously been on a hard and brave journey, and your commitment to sobriety is super inspiring.
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I have had these thoughts about me too… until I think about all the time I spent drinking and hungover 
And I don’t count time spent on the memes thread… it’s almost like reading, right? And your contributions to it are almost a humanitarian effort - raising the mood of the masses!
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I already clicked the like but figured I could verbalize how much I’m GReAtfUL for your rhyme
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Today I am grateful to be alive and sober. I’m grateful my family are alive and well. Grateful to live in a safe and beautiful place. Grateful for zoom meetings, AA, NA, those I’ve met in the fellowships, this forum and those of you who I’ve been blessed to share it with so far. Today I am grateful for 547 days clean and sober. Hope everyone had a safe Christmas season and I’m wishing you all the best and more for the year to come.
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I am grateful for the sound of magpie’s singing in the morning and I’m also grateful for the smell of pine out in nature at dawn
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I am grateful for the beautiful dusting of snow we had last night and how it looks like a magical wonderland this morning.
I’m grateful to be sober.
I’m grateful to be hangover free.
I’m grateful to be inside where it’s warm.
I’m grateful for the quietness of the morning.
I’m grateful for all the people that like my gratitude lists. I was just doing it for me. Still am. But what a wonderful little thing to do for myself that gives other people hope or help.
Grateful I got a Pilates workout in yesterday.
I’m grateful for my coffee.
I’m grateful there’s only 22 days left of this madness or the end of our country as we know it.
Grateful for my sobriety.
Grateful for God.
Grateful for healthcare workers.
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I’m grateful to God
I’m greatful for my recovery
I’m greatful for my family
I’m greatful for my friends
I’m greatful for TS
I’m greatful for my health
I’m greatful that I slept well i really needed it.
I’m greatful that I caught the bus just in time to make It for lunch at Wayside.
I’m greatful that I got visit albeit briefly with a few of my housemates this morning
I’m greatful my housemate and friend Andy is back home
I’m greatful to receive another email from Mom this morning.
I’m greatful for @Dazercat not just your gratitude
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Grateful that the snow wasn’t bad at 6am or 10am, as I was ferrying my kid to and from work.
Grateful that kid #2’s work closed, so we didn’t have to worry about it.
Grateful that I live in a neighborhood not first on the list for snow removal, so staying home is the best option.
Grateful that my landlords pay for snow service for me and I don’t have to do it.
(see any similarities?)
Also hopeful that all the sirens I have been hearing are for mere fender benders and everyone gets home safely today.
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Dec.29.
Grateful that I’m slowly learning to be grateful for the stuff that’s hard, that I used to avoid.
Grateful that I can be sad and happy about things at the same time, that I can feel some sadness at loss and know that it’s the fine print of happiness - and not have to run from it or numb it.
Grateful that I have this time, right now during these holidays, but this year, and at this point in my life - to get sober, be sober, and more - recover. Grateful I get to work on recovery and uncover this sober self…
Grateful for the sunshine-y, crisp winter day out there - the bundled up walk I’ll have later.
Always grateful for my parents, always hope I can do something each day to make them proud.
Grateful for another day.
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