Tuesday Morning Bullets

• Good morning.  Seems like my posts have been few and far between lately.  Just not in much of a mood to write, it will probably change when school starts.
• I got a really nice letter from my Mom and it made me cry....... good tears.  I have not written back to her yet, but I am going to soon.
• I got an invite to my oldest brothers 50th B-Day in Florida .  My Mom will be there.  I almost made a plane reservation, but ended up changing my mind.
• Last Thursday I went to Nursing School orientation and had a great time.  The class of 2011 put on a nice luncheon and gave us a lot of encouragement and support.   I submitted my wish list in for my clinical locations, and if I get what I asked for I will be doing my training right up the street from my house during the second half of the semester.
• So many things have become crystal clear to me this year.  I feel as if I have walked out of a fog that I never realized I was in, until now.  It is pretty cool, but also holds me accountable.  God must believe I am ready.  As the fog has lifted a wonderful feeling of                       "Calm Acceptance" has washed over me and it is really wonderful.
• I started this blog on a search for "Calm Acceptance", and here I am full circle it seems.  I never realized it until I started writing this morning either.  Blogging pulls so much out of me that I never realize is there until I start typing.
• The only credit I will give to myself is for having about a thimble full of willingness when my journey into recovery began, and I am sure that it had to come from God too.
• I am one of those folks who sold myself and my hopes and dreams way short when I got here.  I would have never believed that I could ever feel this good about living my life.
• I would have never believed that I could love and accept other people the way I do today.
• That's why we have to live this program one day at a time, because as alcoholics, there is no way in hell we could handle this much good all at once!  It has to all come in God's time.
• The more I put my trust in my Higher Power, the more enlightened, peaceful, serene and accepting I become.  What a gift!
• I am so grateful for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12 steps that have given me this wonderful life that I love living sober, one day at a time.

"We enjoy moments in which there is something like real piece of mind.  To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression or anxiety-in other words, to all of us-this newfound peace is a priceless gift.  Something new indeed has been added.  Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity."
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 74