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:: Thursday, March 11, 2004 ::

gratitude

God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will. Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life. May I do Thy Will always.

Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would always be with me, and that You would keep me from evil.

Thank You for keeping me sober today. Amen.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about. -- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield, The French Correspondence of the 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust, “Regrets, Reveries, Changing Skies,” no. 12, Pleasures and Regrets

Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. -- Saul Bellow, Foreword to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Today, I am 39 years old. Amazing. I certainly don't feel old enough or grown-up enough to be 39, but I never expected to live past 35, so this is another gravy year. So much has happened in the past twelve months. I began blogging about this time last year. I began opening my heart and dating again. There was Tucker, Allen, Joe, among others. I began cleaning and opening up my home again to my friends and family. With the help of Blaise, Dan, Doug, and Tom, I started back to graduate school at UTD and made an A in my first course. I heard my first Fifth Step. I got to see the bar where I had my last drink almost nine years ago in New Orleans. Finally, I purchased my first home of my own. Thank You, God. It's been a wonderful year.

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