WednesdayOctober 29, 2014

Life on Life's Terms

Another gratitude list

Rather than reflect on how another person's character defects might affect my day, I wrote a list of humble people.  I wrote another list of honest people. My third list was of people I could depend on.

Today I will be grateful for humble, honest, dependable people.

Life on Life's Terms © 2014 by Ken Montrose

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Ethics in the Helping Professions

November 5, 2014 at Kerr Presbyterian Church in Verona

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• Addiction Counselors by the Pa. Certification Board
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Relapse Prevention Group

What do you know

I walked outside to get the mail.  Roger was sitting with the smokers, scribbling feverishly in a notebook.

"What're you writing?" I asked.

"You know I had seven years clean before this last relapse, right?" he asked.  "I'm writing a list of everything I learned.  It's a gratitude list."

"What are you grateful for?"

"I'm grateful I know these things.  Most of them I learned the hard way.  Some of them I had to learn over and over.  I'm grateful I don't need to re-learn them, I just have to put them into practice."

Today I will be grateful for things I know, and need only put into practice.

RPG: Relapse Prevention Group © 2014 by Ken Montrose