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February 29

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ∼Melody Beattie

Getting clean and sober is no picnic. Initially, there doesn’t appear to be much to appreciate. Everything we do is laborious and very, very challenging. We soon realize, however, that challenges are opportunities in disguise. And for that we feel grateful. We are able to show our gratitude for such challenges:

•Each new twenty-four hours

•Each of our successes or failures

•Adversity through which we garner strength

•Dependence that brings us independence

•Our past that brought us this present

Let us remain grateful in the midst of all our challenges, for it is because of life’s challenges that we continue to grow.

When I am grate-full, I am grace-filled.

I want to convey this message to everyone reading this book: There is much in your life to be grateful for, just as there has been in mine.

∼Chemically Dependent Anonymous P 223