- A fresh start
- Achievable goals
- Meeting new people
- Reading more books
- Learning more words
- Being more empathetic
- Listening more and talking less
- Getting healthy
- Getting better with my procrastination
- Helping more people
- Working on my Spirituality
- Continuing to move forward with my life
- Love God even more
All posts by Karen Teig
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY!
- Beautiful, crisp day.
- Sunshine.
- God.
- Wonderful Sisters in Christ.
- Good books.
- Good music.
- My son is moving back to town.
- Learning opportunities at work.
- Hunger for learning.
- My roommate, Skeeter. :)
- My cold not hanging on for weeks. Thanks to God and over the counter medication.
- My new Manager. Although it was hard to get used to someone new after 20 plus years of having my previous one, I believe I can learn from my new one.
- I am sober and nicotine free another day.
- My family and friends.
- I can clear my mind and not look back or forward.
August 20, 2022
- I am alive and relatively healthy.
- I have a job that I like, although stressful and challenging recently,
- I have good family and friends in my life.
- My son is moving back home to Duluth on October 1.
- My tinnitus, although irritating, is not keeping me down.
- I am relatively pain free today. Thanks God.
- I celebrated 40 years sobriety this year and am very grateful.
- I always remain teachable.
- Love
First Day Of Spring….
- Spring is a great season.
- Warmer temperatures.
- Flowers blooming.
- Snow melting.
- Streets getting cleaned with rain.
- The start of it being light later.
- Beautiful sunrises as usual on the lake.
- My brother’s 63rd birthday today and more family birthdays to come this season.
- My sobriety birthday coming.
- God. I am grateful for him through all the seasons.
Back To Regular Life…..
- Back to my regular work schedule tomorrow after 5 months of being on light duty and healing. I relaxed this weekend and will go back to work and slowly lead into my PT exercises.
- I have a job to go back to. I am grateful for that.
- God was with me this whole time, even when I was frustrated and impatient.
- I had great support through it all.
- My Bible was a great thing to have to reach for, not only when I was reading it regularly but also in between.
- I found out, even with a bum knee/leg, that I could make it up and downstairs safely at home. I avoided them as much as possible at work.
- Even though I felt that hour loss of sleep today, it felt good to get up a little early.
- I am sober. Cannot imagine going through this while drinking. I think I would have just drank away the pain or found pills to do the job.
- Open mind. I can have an open mind to many things and changes in my life.
Life Is Good….
- God, who watches over me daily and who I can pray to like I am having a conversation with him.
- My son, who is coming over today to let me watch Game Of Thrones.
- My siblings. I love them all.
- My cat, who found his way to the middle of my bed this morning.
- Good comedy on t.v.
- My Bible and the wonderful plans in it.
- My boss, for being so patient and keeping HR at bay as this recovery took longer than expected.
- My ortho doc who was more than patient with me. I think I will keep her.
- Good coffee.
- The beautiful sunrise this morning.
- The lesson I learned over this past five months to listen to my body.
- Learning patience.
- My injury making me look at my extra weight and how I really need to lose it, as it will be easy on my joints and bones.
- Getting to do my PT exercises again so I can strengthen my knee and leg.
- I am upright and mobile again….one step at a time.
A New Day…..
- God woke me up. What could be better than that?
- My sweet boy, Skeeter, greeting me in the bathroom as usual.
- A good day at work.
- Walking a little faster/better.
- A beautiful day. I believe it hit 50 here. It does not seem that long ago, it was 25 below zero.
- Sunshine. Love me some of that Vitamin D.
- Chinese food for dinner.
- A comfy chair to sit in at the end of a day at work.
- Ice is gone, for the most part, on the streets. Feels safer, but still being careful.
- Good sleep, when I can get it.
Dealing With Things….
- I am grateful that even when I have a hard morning mentally, I still can bring myself out of it with prayer, online church, reading my Big Book and just getting busy around the house.
- I only have to live for this day.
- That even though I get in my head and look back and get stuck, I can get out of it and be grateful for another day God has given me.
- Good food, my cat, laughter.
- The beautiful sunrise this morning. Thankful I can get my butt out of bed early enough to see it.
- I always remain teachable.
Never take for granted
- God. I never take him for granted anymore.
- Friends. I lost a friend from my Bible study. She fought the great fight for a long time but is at peace now.
- The nice weather. It can change so quick. Grateful for a nice sunny day and seeing things melt. Spring fever anyone?
- My son. He talks of leaving Duluth and moving towards the Cities this Fall. I will miss him but enjoy each time we get together.
- A roof over my head. I feel for people who were on the streets, especially earlier in the winter.
- Laughter. I can laugh at lots of things and it does me good. It is especially good when I can laugh at myself.
- My siblings. They are all older than me and I am grateful they are still all alive.
- A peaceful day.
- My job.
February 28, 2021
- I am alive. Thanks be to God. :)
- Nice weather.
- My cat. :) He is my little buddy.
- My son coming over yesterday.
- Church online this morning.
- Waking up at a decent time the past two days.
- Good food and music.
- Enjoying a good book.
- The sun reflecting off the ice chunks on the lake.
- I can live, love and laugh today. Life is GOOD.