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 Sixteen
Grateful today for colorful sunrises. They help to start a day with hope and beauty.
Time for Gratitude: Day Fifteen
Today I'm grateful for an occasional quiet moment.
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 Thirteen
Today I am grateful for sleep.
Time for Gratitude: Day Twelve
I'm grateful today for the sanitation wipes they now offer at grocery stores for the carts. I'm sure it's prevented many viruses from spreading.
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 Ten
Today (and absolutely everyday) I am ever so grateful to come home to a place where critters are excited and happy to see me (even if it's just for the fact that I'm the hand that feeds them)!!!
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.