Whenever i come to this thread I am always moved by what everyone else chooses to post. As I read through I think, "Oh yes, I'm thankful for that, too, and definitely
that; hadn't thought about it lately, but definitely
that, too."
All of these people all over the world-- each one of them occupying a particular place on the continuum of suffering, some in acute pain and darkness, others emerging into light, others just seeing that light in the far distance, some in total freefall--but each one touching fingers to keys to say, "there is still this (fill in the blank) that I am grateful for." Sometimes it is being grateful for one day of not putting a needle in the arm, sometimes it is for ice cream--it is empowering to do this. To remember the taste of ice cream from the depths of depression is powerful, to be grateful for deliciousness, even more so. To fight off a craving with everything you've got and then to be grateful for your own effort and success, no matter how transitory, is monumental.
To be still enough and present enough in your own suffering to be able to see even one miraculously beautiful thing outside of it, and to focus on
that, even momentarily, is the key to the door that leads to the way out.
So I am once again (and every day!) grateful for all of you who post here. You are the purest light life has to offer.



