Today I’m grateful for relationships.

I am very fortunate to have some amazing relationships with family and friends. I am close with my family-parents, siblings, nieces/nephews, in-laws- and I have some amazing, deep friendships that make me feel complete.

I am grateful for new relationships too- people that I find later in life where we just “click” and I feel I can share parts of myself. Trust is an amazing thing once it’s found between people.

I am especially thinking about relationships today as three years ago, my paternal Grandmother passed away. While we had some difficult moments where we were frustrated with one another- I never felt our relationship strain. I always felt her love and hope she always felt mine. We’d send each other letters back and forth, talk on the phone, and spend extended periods of time just chatting together in her living room. I’m grateful I had a relationship with such a woman.

And gratitude for those relationships is one thing. But I also want to make sure I continue to nurture them with family and friends. I never want to look back and not feel that gratitude for such wonderful relationships. I want to be able to look back on my life, at the very end, and say – “My life was rich with wonderful relationships”. That would be a very blessed life.