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WEDNESDAY MORNING MEETING 9AM (EST) – TOPICS: GRATITUDE; KEEP IT SIMPLE
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Meeting scheduled in the alanon chat room at 9:00AM Eastern Standard Time

 

Topics will be:  “Gratitude” (A mountain of Gratitude made out of Molehills); “Keep it Simple”.



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Referring to the topic “Gratitude (A Mountain of Gratitude Made Out of Molehills”) I had the opportunity to share about what I call my "Prayer Tree”, or Guardian Tree as referred to in my culture. I was asked to share a picture.

This light bulb moment was brought to me by personalizing what I was told was a "God Box", a box to put slips of paper in with prayers written on them, as a physical way to turn things over.  A veteran member of this site had suggested this for me and I gave it a shot.

My box got full enough one day that I figured I would empty it. I noticed that many of the slips of paper had the same thing written on them over & over again. Not only did I notice I was handing the same things over & over again, and started to work on that habit. 

It was suggested by a different veteran member that I personalize my God Box. So, it turned into a tree. I give gifts to my tree. I give offerings of tobacco to my tree. I write my prayers on ribbons and tie them onto the tree.

A third veteran member, challenged me to a “30 Days of Gratitude” for Thanksgiving. During that 30 day challenge, I noticed that there were plenty of prayers asking for help from m HP, but not very many prayers of gratitude.

Even though I was grateful for all that my HP has done for me... but I had forgotten to actually thank Him.

My daughter started to use the tree. I started seeing my neighbors stop and look at the tree in wonder. And then all the sudden, I realized the neighbor kids were asking my daughter for ribbons… they were writing what they were grateful for, and adding to the tree as well.

I realized that not only molehills of worries can turn into a mountain, but that molehills of gratitude can turn into mountains as well.

Today I have much gratitude in my life because I got to physically watch it grow. This is one of the best blessings in my life. Thank you, to those of you who made these suggestions. It’s been quite a while, but I hope you remember who you are.

It started to get rather full, so, yesterday I got a knock on the door from the caretaker of our community. I thought for sure he was going to ask me to take it down, but instead he asked for an explanation. When he reported back to out landlord… I was told that it was fine the way it is. They are letting me keep our prayer tree.

 

 



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