I GET To...

I GET TO…

   What a beautiful morning in Kona!  Grey sky, sprinkling and breezy.  Not everyday has to have blue bird sky to be beautiful.  Days like these get my juices going to get "responsible" things accomplished.

    So today I GET to go to work.  I GET to schedule an oil change.  I GET to do some AA step work.

    What I really NEED to do is to be creative.  It's been well over a week since I've taken any time to follow my passion and meditate in my art.  I'm feeling it and I'm feeling it in a bad way! 

   Finding myself short and snippy.  Everyone using self-check-out at the store where I work gets more stupid by the minute.  What I usually can shrug off lingers obsessively in my mind that should be free and open for only good things.  Hmmmm...what’s going on?

    Now I GET to use the tools for living so graciously taught me in my recovery.  Journal, which I'm doing now (always takes the power out of what ails me).  Pick up the phone and share the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Quiet my mind and let my heart soar to heights where only greatness abounds.  Hit my knees and give thanks.

   You know I already feel so much better.  Yes, the coffee is kicking in as well.  But I'm realizing how much I take for granted.  How blessed I am to GET to go to work today. To GET to assist people who don't know how to use self-check-out and teach them to have no fear their talkative, uncooperative, and pushy register.  I GET to schedule an oil change cuz I GET to have a car!  I GET to have coffee and fresh water flowing from a faucet and shower head.  I GET to flush a toilet and not have it back up!  I GET to breathe this nurturing air here in Kona.  How simple was that to GET back centered?

  I'm even going to take a few minutes now to do something creative. I don't need to sit at the computer and try to grow my business.  I need to string some beads and grow my soul!  Ahhhh...thank you for getting me back in line.

  Okay, if you're interested you can check out my Gifts in Recovery at my website DeesignsByHarris.com or my shop at Etsy.com/shop/DeesignsByHarris.  Have a mighty fine day. I'll be back next Monday.  Aloha!