Today is my birthday. And I want to be grateful. Birthdays should be joyful days but they are also days of reflection, of laughter tempered with a reminder that we are all finite. Some find birthdays depressing. I choose not to - I want to celebrate, to be thankful, to praise God for the years I've been given to enjoy things here, build relationships, and grow. I want to make a thankfulness list for today. Without premeditating this blog at all, here are the first 15 things that come to my mind that I'm thankful for today.
1. Real brewed coffee with cream
2. My mother
3. Soft blankets
4. Bright sunshine
5. Robins
6. The green grass that is finally here after a long winter
7. Sleeping in
8. My husband who makes me laugh
9. Hot water
10. Jodi
11. Tracy
12. Cold medicine (yep, sick on my birthday)
13. Kleenex (see #12)
14. Janet
15. Waterslides
Huh, well that was a bit more random than I thought it would be. Embrace thankfulness, it does the body good.
2 comments:
Carolyn,
I see you're following "A Holy Experience". Me too! I'm reading her book right now actually. I love how she finds blessings in the mundane. Glad to see you've found it too.
I love your new blog decor.
Hope you're doing well,
Rachel
yes, love her. No idea how she comes up with such amazing things to write almost every day. Very inspiring. I read your blog too :)
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