Gratitude #105

Today I am grateful to be alive, for cappuccino, for a friend of mine who has been wearing the same sweatshirt for the past week, for my job, for baseball and soccer, for the cold wind that has been blowing the past few days, that I am capable of some measure of serenity, that I am committed to not drinking TODAY, that I am helping other drunks stay sober, and that  I have an amazing family.  I am seeking to be grateful to God for all of this goodness, and all of this great wealth, in the right spirit, which is to say the spirit of detachment but with passion.  And despite all of the difficulty and imperfection of sobriety and life, I am most grateful to God for the gift of being alive.