Showing Gratitude
Posted on November 28, 2007 in the category
let us not love with words or tongue,
but with actions and in truth.
I John 3:18
We are learning to break the cycle of addiction. By going into recovery, we are assured that we will pass much less dysfunction to our children. They will benefit from our new lives and the changes we are making. Now, we have become healthy role models, helping our children live better lives.
It is exciting that each successive generation will benefit from the recovery in our family today. Future children will be raised in families where active addiction has been replaced by more openness, honesty, clear thinking, and real communication. We can take pride in knowing that today’s work, today’s meeting, and today’s recovery will pay dividends for generations to come. In the meantime, we ourselves are living in the present, with gratitude and healthy pride, choosing each day to affirm life.
Today let me show gratitude that recovery has benefits not only for my family but for future generations, too.
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Thanks for that. It’s what I needed to hear…that stuff about recovery being as much for today as for the future. If I ever do have children, I want to be able to promise them a saner, happier mother.
There is nothing I am more thankful for than my recovery. Without it there is nothing else. You are going to make a great mother.