For me today carrying the message that recovery is life and life is good is what drives me. It is amazing to me to see folks come from the pits of addiction into a brand new way of living filled with joy and hope. It brings me back to my early days and the feeling … Read more
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner Life is worth LIVING, cause Life is Gooood! Living in gratitude is the key to happiness. We attract more and more good into our lives by staying grateful for all … Read more
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. Marc Estrin I have learned over the years that when someone is not kind to me it matters not! If I allow myself to get upset I am … Read more
The Joy of living! I simply can not say it enough, Life is meant to be enjoyed and not to be endured. When we decide to get off the merry go round of addiction it feels like it is the end of the line for our fun! But that is the furthest thing from reality. … Read more
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~Joseph Addison As I thought about my ABC’s of gratitude the letter “I” posed a challenge because true gratitude is not about “I” it is about … Read more
E is for Enough. Enough love in my life. I just can not say it enough, I have the greatest loving children in all the world. It is amazing because I am not half the father that they are the loving children! I am so grateful for all four of them, Sean, Kristin, Liam and … Read more
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. Eric Hoffer The “B” on my gratitude list stands for Blessings. Through the joy and the challenges m gratitude compounds. At times I need to pinch myself because the blessings are far too vast for me to count. This morning my … Read more
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself … Read more
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller Overcoming addiction and active alcoholism is a phenomenal fete. People die of this malady daily, it affects thousands of lives across this great country of ours. Recently, I wrote a story on CNN’s I-Promote. In the article … Read more
“The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.” – Leonard Nimoy As we progress through Recovery Month I am reminded more and more that I can only keep it if I give it away. During our campaign to develop an effective scholarship program we face an uphill battle. We are … Read more