Time for Gratitude: Day Eighteen

Today I'm grateful for reflections of light coming in the window through suncatchers and crystals. Growing up, my Grandmother always kept sun catchers and crystals in her kitchen window. So when the light came through in just the right way, light spots and rainbows came in to light up the kitchen. I one upped my Grandmother by…

Time for Gratitude: Day Seventeen

I'm grateful today for a wonderful lunch date with my sister Trish, niece Cora, and nephew Ethan. It's a nice break in the middle of a workday and they make my heart happy.   It's also fun to mingle the work and the personal. I remember fondly visiting my parents' places of work in awe…

Time for Gratitude: Day Fourteen

Today I'm grateful for the peace of prayer. I don't describe myself as a religious person. I worry I disappoint my parents as they are United Methodist ministers and I grew up living and breathing the church. I spent eighteen years attending church weekly and deeply involved in various church community activities. If I need…

Time for Gratitude: Day Eleven

Today I'm grateful for life. Kind of broad I realize...Just this past week I found out two people I care about and have known for a very long time have received difficult, if not life ending, diagnoses. It makes me grateful to know them, love them, and have them in my life. Life is way…

Time for Gratitude: Day Nine

Today I'm grateful for those moments when one of my loved ones intuitively knows I need a picture of something or someone present in their day. It just makes me pause from what I'm doing or feeling to appreciate the lives that surround me.