Answer figured out!
Photo by George Dolgikh @ Giftpundits.com on Pexels.com I guess a better question is, what makes you grateful? no, that doesn’t sound right either. …
Where does your gratitude come from?
Where does your gratitude come from?
Tag Archives: Gratitude
Morning thoughts
Be Modest in Blessings Received
Be Grateful for what You have
Pray for those Who Have Not
Seek to Serve
I Snagged this from a friend’s FaceBook page. Says it all
Just to remind everyone that the last thing out of Pandora’s Box, was hope….
IN THE TIME OF QUIET
by Philippa Atkins
No one’s told the daffodils about the pause to Spring
And no one’s told the birds to roost and asked them not to sing
No one’s asked the lazy bee to cease his bumbling round
And no one’s stopped the bright green shoots emerging through the ground
No one’s told the sap to rest, deep within the wood
And stop the sleepy trees from waking, wreathed about in bud
No one’s told the sky to douse its brightest shades of blue
And stop the scudding clouds from puffing headlong into view
No one’s asked the lambs to still the springs beneath their feet,
To stop their rapid rush and quell each joyful bleat
No one’s told the stream to halt its gurgle or its flow
And warned the playful breezes, not to gust and blow
No one’s asked the raindrops not to fall upon the earth
And fail to quench the soil in the season of rebirth
No one’s locked the sun down, or dimmed the shimmer of the moon
And even in the darkest night, the stars are still immune
Remember what you value, remember who is dear
Close the doors to danger and keep your family near
In the quiet all around us take the time to sit and stare
And wonder at the glory unfurling everywhere
Look towards the future, after the ordeal
And keep faith in Mother Nature’s power and will to heal
The Wall
I look at a board on a wall in front of my writing desk. It is a point of inspiration and love.
Photos, notes, reminders.
The earliest photo is from the 1930’s. My great-grandmother (Orphan Annie) and my great-grandfather James who died in 1940.
A newspaper clipping and photo of my paternal grandparents 50th wedding anniversary in 1973. Photo of a dear cousin and her husband, both gone now much much too early. And my parents gone in 1980’s. A photocopy of my father’s army application filled out on a Friday the 13th in 1942 at the age of 17.
So many dead and gone. BUT interspersed throughout the board, the Living. Sons, grandsons, siblings, in-laws, and another dear cousin who is my mini me.
Life and lives. Memories made and being made. A wedding invitation for September 2017 of a dear nephew and his bride to be.
I love my wall. I love the reminders of all whose paths transverse mine.
My Gratitude Wall.
This is just the starting point. There are not enough walls to hold the photos of those who have gone, and those who live who warm my heart and spirit.
I am Blessed.
Hopelessly Devoted to You..
This song came to mind as I started my day, considered all the could do and should do things and decided nope..today I am hopelessly devoted to you. You being my bloggers and some wordpress organizational things to do. So in order of priority 1) complete this daily post 2) read and respond to my comments (something I have been lax about in the past) 3) Enjoy the Reader aspect to read my ‘I follow list’ and comment 4) do some maintenance on my site especially blog roll as some there have now gone and many treasures are not listed at all. All in all a perfect day planned I say.
FITFS – following in the footsteps – First, before any of that I must pay homage to my practice of recognizing one of my fave bloggers who also works around themes (have I mentioned this is something I am seeking for moi?) Emily Cannell This amazing woman and her family moved to Japan sometime ago. I first got to know her at the beginning of my blogging career when her ‘Hey from Japan – We are being shaken and stirred here’ was Freshly Pressed. The woman knows how to report and without invoking whining and sniveling was able to give us a birds eye view – or an Emily ey’s view of what is going in her adopted home. She has been FP’d a number of times since – and for good reason. She is inspiring, hilarious, and talented.
**By the by – big news! Yesterday’s post was about Judith Baxter and her book review by author Zoe Sharp and how wonderful it was that Zoe had commented on Judith’s post. Well guess what!! Zoe commented on my post about Judith’s post about her!!! So now it would seem I have two – that’s 2 published authors as my new besties -Zoe Sharp and my bestie bestie Joss Burnell (whom you will hear more about…should it be whom?)!
***Now in looking back at my first two posts on Following in the footsteps… I just checked the links I put in to Judith and Jaime’s sites and it does not seemed to have worked. So I just tried it again and it worked….go figure.
Oh my am I going to ever get to the rest of today’s post? The air is cooler and less humid to day and I hope the weather conditions every where else lets up a bit. Some places too cold, some too hot, some too dry some too wet. I hope it all settles a bit for everyone.
We were lucky yesterday to have a pool here at the house and when DIL wanted to take G2 in he whined and cried until his foot hit the water and he bobbed along in this floatie vest thing and called. ‘Grandma, Grandma, look I decided to come in and I can swim!!’ Uh huh – just like a man!
Hope y’all have a good Saturday or Sunday – which ever day it is for you my friends.
FITFS….Judith
FITFS – following in the footsteps…
Yesterday I mentioned the quality of the bloggers I follow and that while I, after more than a year was still looking for my theme, my schtick, my brand, my…well you know – I could at least celebrate my faves, and perhaps through them find myself. So one of the very first blogs I read this morning was a dear WP friend Judith who resides in New Zealand, where it is mid winter and earthquake season.
I am not sure if Judith Baxter has been Freshly Pressed (and if not should have been) but today her news was even better that FP. Judith did a review of a book she had read. Well not just a book, and the contents kept her reading for an entire day, but an excellent book. So good in fact that the author herself, Zoe Sharp commented on her post. The book Judith read was ‘ First Drop‘. Now how cool is that????
Now I know I will get the book and others by Sharp, and I suspect that since Judith has had close to 100,000 hits on her site (in just over a year) that many others will do the same thing. Congratulations to Judith and to Zoe!
Hmmm what is the greatest thing that has ever happened to you since you have been blogging? (aside from all the friends you have made which is of course the number 1 best thing)
That is going to require some serious thought!
It’s a 40 degree day here, G1 has just uttered for the first time since school was out, “I’m bored.” I expect that sentiment won’t last too long once he gets going with his day.
If the children are going out to play today it will have to early in the day. Our thoughts are with all who remain without power from the storms…which means also air conditioning and the every day things we take for granted.
Mama Kat’s Thanksgiving Post
Mama Kat’s Thanksgiving Post
Naturally today being the most important holiday to our American friends all five of this week’s prompts are about Thanksgiving; favourite recipes, traditions, fav memory, poems and who is cooking the turkey. There are a considerable number of us outside the festivities but this does not exclude us from participating or giving thanks.
Thankfulness is international. That is, the celebration and appreciation of thanks. We can all be thankful but of course we do not have to be either. And what we are thankful for depends on age. When I was a child I was thankful for a new toy perhaps. I tend to think children were actually more thankful back then, but I could be wrong.
Even though it is popular, not just today to express our thankfulness, I wonder if some of us are really capable of giving sincere thanks or if we just say it. I have met people so embittered by life they could not see anything to be glad of. I wonder if in spite of what we have if we are losing our ability to be thankful, if we are just becoming expectant.
I won’t give a list of the things I am grateful for today, I will just give thanks that I am grateful. It takes heart to be capable of thankfulness and to have heart we must have the ability to feel for others not ourselves. Thankfulness is not about ourselves, it is about all we are connected to outside of, which then becomes inside of us.
So no thanksgiving here, just a blessing:
MAY ALL TODAY, WHETHER ALONE OR WITH OTHERS, FIND THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS TOUCHED.
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