Always There Is Something For Which To Feel Grateful
What I am feeling grateful for today . . .
. . . for new understanding, progress, and compassion for my past.
. . . the holiday season that brings people together, renews relationships, brings joy and warmth, refreshes us and renews our hope, the magic inspiring awe and delight in the children and creating a peace that carries us into the new year.
. . . for getting two new seasons of Xena when usually I get one every other year or so! I have hours and hours of rich entertainment ahead of me =) I like Hercules, too but already had more seasons of those than I did of Xena. Besides, I find Xena a little bit more bad-ass =)
. . . for books rich in philosophical content with a delicious plot set in an accurate historical context-fantastique.
. . . for having become more of a go-with-the-flow type person instead of being so excessively and annoyingly rigid.
. . . for a truly enjoyable time spent with all the various relatives over Christmas despite all that could have made it unpleasant.
. . . for finally truly indulging in fine wine for the first time since I became of legal age. All the reasons I never did before aside, it was finally the right place and time to try it.
. . . for not being addicted to cigarettes or coffee. Cigarettes are a part of the very distant past and no longer affect me. Coffee I never started drinking specifically because people become so easily addicted to it. And thinking about this made me realize that addictions take on all sorts of forms, and I need to break my recent addiction to caffeine-free-diet-pepsi. I must remember not to buy it anymore. I used to go weeks and weeks without soda as long as I didn't buy it for home. Remembering how I would love to be addiction free and not dependent on anything has given me the motivation, for which I'm grateful, to stop drinking that stuff.
. . . for when things work out precisely as they should, which is sometimes startling depending on the situation but grows less so the more it happens that way.
. . . for delving into a new place of compassion, one never held before, not in that form, fashion, context-never in such a way where it was so needed yet I had to overcome so much anger to give it. It was a difficult but beautiful lesson in the end.
. . . for my new ring I got from my husband, which is so perfectly suited to me and for my ability to list such possessions as something I'm grateful for when the anti-materialism part of me tries to stop me, but why shouldn't I equally enjoy all the wonderful things in my life lately? Magic in the mundane.
. . . for new understanding, progress, and compassion for my past.
. . . the holiday season that brings people together, renews relationships, brings joy and warmth, refreshes us and renews our hope, the magic inspiring awe and delight in the children and creating a peace that carries us into the new year.
. . . for getting two new seasons of Xena when usually I get one every other year or so! I have hours and hours of rich entertainment ahead of me =) I like Hercules, too but already had more seasons of those than I did of Xena. Besides, I find Xena a little bit more bad-ass =)
. . . for books rich in philosophical content with a delicious plot set in an accurate historical context-fantastique.
. . . for having become more of a go-with-the-flow type person instead of being so excessively and annoyingly rigid.
. . . for a truly enjoyable time spent with all the various relatives over Christmas despite all that could have made it unpleasant.
. . . for finally truly indulging in fine wine for the first time since I became of legal age. All the reasons I never did before aside, it was finally the right place and time to try it.
. . . for not being addicted to cigarettes or coffee. Cigarettes are a part of the very distant past and no longer affect me. Coffee I never started drinking specifically because people become so easily addicted to it. And thinking about this made me realize that addictions take on all sorts of forms, and I need to break my recent addiction to caffeine-free-diet-pepsi. I must remember not to buy it anymore. I used to go weeks and weeks without soda as long as I didn't buy it for home. Remembering how I would love to be addiction free and not dependent on anything has given me the motivation, for which I'm grateful, to stop drinking that stuff.
. . . for when things work out precisely as they should, which is sometimes startling depending on the situation but grows less so the more it happens that way.
. . . for delving into a new place of compassion, one never held before, not in that form, fashion, context-never in such a way where it was so needed yet I had to overcome so much anger to give it. It was a difficult but beautiful lesson in the end.
. . . for my new ring I got from my husband, which is so perfectly suited to me and for my ability to list such possessions as something I'm grateful for when the anti-materialism part of me tries to stop me, but why shouldn't I equally enjoy all the wonderful things in my life lately? Magic in the mundane.