My Gratitudes for the week of 3/11- 3/17

"Appreciate the great people and things in your life. – Sometimes we don’t notice the things others do for us until they stop doing them.  Don’t be like that.  Be grateful for what you have, who loves you, and who cares for you.  You’ll never know how much they mean to you until the day they’re no longer beside you.  Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you.  Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it to live." M & A Hack

                                                                     

I've been thinking a lot lately of all the people I need to thank. I'd gotten into the practice within this past year where I was sending thank you letters and notes to people for kind gestures, things done, or just for the fact that they had added to my day, and therefore my life--- by whatever acts of generosity or kindness they had displayed. This ranged from a thank you to my dad, for doing something for me I didn't ask him to do, to the girl at Walmart, who went out of her way to explain a photo program feature I didn't know about, on a photo editing program we both used. Well beyond the "requirements" of her job. I was inspired to do this by reading a book called 365 Thank Yous. (To find out more about this wonderful book, as well as a link and review, click on the Gratitude In Books tab).

Unfortunately, I've allowed myself to fall away from the practice and it's eating at me. So it's time for me to commit my list to paper, the list that is in my head mentally, of all I know deserve to be thanked and acknowledged, and start writing those thanks you. I have a lot of people in my life to thank!

My Gratitudes for the week of 2/26 - 3/04

Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality.  

~Alfred Painter  

 

It was a TOUGH week. Full of lots of negative energy and emotion. I know I'm supposedly not supposed to feel those things but I have to admit. I am grateful that I did. It was hard and painful to go through it and feel them so strongly. But now that I have and faced it, I know it was a cleansing process that needed to be done. I am also grateful for the way that it was handled by those I shared such deep, intense emotions with. I was uplifted, encouraged, supported and explained to with patience and love. How can I NOT appreciate such gifts. I am so truly, truly blessed. I want to take a moment to really express my gratitude personally to some specific people who helped me this week through this. Elaine Wilson, Holli Bailey and Brooke Butler (for their continued love, devotion, and loyalty), My Therapist (for the letter connecting the dots), Melissa Rae (for her reading and subsequent beautiful and touching letter) and Loyd (for his mini reading),  and surprisingly, my husband. I let him have it like you wouldn't believe... he responded with resolve and a determination to take what was dished out and then did his best to respond to my needs. It couldn't have been easy. My deepest gratitude for it all and the lessons and help I received from you.