It's late Sunday afternoon, and I'm feeling pretty grateful - for everything.I've just returned from a lovely weekend away with my daughters ~ we travelled to visit with friends of ours, friends we haven't seen in 4 months. Driving home earlier today, I thought about how very fortunate I am to be able to plan get-aways like this. Fortunate to have a car, fortunate to have a friend, fortunate to have a lifestyle that means no work on the weekends unless I choose to.
Fortunate to have two daughters whose company I enjoy and who are still willing to travel with me. Fortunate to have appliances that allow me to already have three loads of laundry completed in preparation for tomorrow. Fortunate to have the means and the foresight to have a dinner planned and about to be prepared.
And fortunate to know in the very core of my being that the secret to a life of happiness and a sense of inner peace and balance is the capacity to feel grateful for all that is mine, and to appreciate what may not be mine - but still brings me great joy; like fairy lights, falling rain, blowing wind, laughter, brewing coffee, inspiring people and time alone.
What makes you feel grateful? Sometimes even just thinking about it can make a bad day better.
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Today I read a comment in National Geographic from a woman who said that she was sick of their family struggling financially to where they had to eat rice and beans again five times this week. Then she opened the magazine and saw a starving woman who would consider herself rich to have rice and beans every day. She said she felt so ashamed. I suddenly am grateful that we do not have to have rice and beans every day, too. Thanks for letting me share.
Sometimes just looking around you is a powerful exercise in gratitude and appreciation. No matter how bad I might be feeling about something ~ inevitably there is someone who is experiencing far worse than me. Thanks for visiting me here!
I get these pangs throughout the day (even on those days that are difficult - where the boys are definitely running circles round me)...suddenly I become flooded with pure joy and gratitude at all that I have, all the beauty in life that we are experiencing together as a family. Those random moments are precisely what I live for! Thanks for this post, it gave me another blush of recognition...I love life!
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