It has been proven by many that gratitude is beneficial in so many ways. It can improve your overall well-being.
I finally started exercising again after taking way too much time off. It’s amazing how well I am sleeping, and my overall attitude has changed in just 3 nights of working out.
When I left for work this morning I harvested this Kale from my garden to add to my pasta, and then I looked up at the morning sky and I felt this enormous amount of gratitude.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” ~ Buddha
What are you grateful for today?
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26 responses to “What are you grateful for today?”
It finally stopped raining.
I’m grateful for me health be that what it may.
I honestly think I am alive because of my wife. She has maintained vigilance throughout the time I have had insulin dependent diabetes and encourages me through personal actions she takes to illustrate support.
I just got on the Fitbit bandwagon.Yesterday was the first time I nailed all four goals. It looks like today is headed in that direction too. I think it gets easier to be motivated to make it happen when you get a streak going.
let me know if you have one, or plan to get one, and we’ll set up some competitions. I’m in one now with a cousin’s group. Kinda amazed how competitive people are but it does motivate.
Did you get that boot link I sent you?
@spitfire3dc I bought a Fitbit and never took it out of it’s packaging. I am the lowest tech IT person in the business. :) Good on your wife.
Remember, motion is lotion. I threw my back out right before Christmas, and couldn’t walk, stand or sit for 3 days. Enough of that!
Book link? I don’t recall. I am a little behind on my responses. I will look for it.
@Gina Boot link
@spitfire3dc Yes, I found it and responded at the link. Those are super cool boots. I was surprised because I was looking for books. :)
I’m hoping to be grateful later today for the skill of a vascular surgeon and the return of my father to us.
@griz thinking of you
@BelleMadre
Thanks for that. I’ve added a very hopeful progress report to this thread just today as I head back on the road for a while.
But I will return home soon, at least for an extended weekend. We still have a Christmas to celebrate as a family!
@griz I just saw this. How did the surgery go? I am thinking good thoughts for you and your father.
@Gina
Thanks Gina.
The surgery went well but had us a little worried when it took 3x as long as expected. The carotid was more blocked than they expected.
He’s regained almost everything the stroke took, except for sensation on one entire side of his body. He’s going to have to adapt to not feeling the floor under his foot, or when things are sharp or hot. But as far as strokes go, good fortune has smiled on us.
I am grateful to have a fun crowd of people as my family members. Oh how the family grew in the last 10 years!!! Every added family member is cheerful and fun to be with, so ….. my Mom’s funeral will be a celebration of her life —- and not sad.
As for kale, I am happy to know that if you sprinkle it generously with olive oil, it makes it easier to scrape off of your plate — into the trash. For that, I am truly grateful.
I am grateful to have Immortal Pirate as my partner.
@ladybarbara Family is good. Have a wonderful celebration for your mother.
Hahhahaha aaaah, you must not know how to prepare kale properly. When it’s raw it’s best to cut it really thin as it can be pretty hard to chew. And some strains of kale is good to bruise it a bit. It’s amazing when it’s freshly roasted, but not roasted and put in bag bought off the shelf. It’s also good in soups. It’s way more versatile than lettuce.
@Gina I tried the kale that was growing in a bunny rabbit garden plot. I did not roast or bruise it. I used to harvest and replant seeds of kale, carrots, parsley, parsnips, mustard, and lettuces of all kinds and scatter them all over a plot of garden for my uncaged rabbit to eat all his little rabbit heart desired. I occasionally tasted some of his vegetables and kale was on the sample list. I don’t know how to cook it because neither of us like cooked greens. However, bunny rabbit loved his garden!
im grateful today for days off and for the job that keeps us going. for the chance to hang out and get silly. for the gifts of humour and music that keep coming from my mother who has been gone a long time but still visits me in dreams (its her birthday today and i dreamt of her last night before i even remembered it was her bday!) Im grateful for relative health and a few other things. im grateful for fun times with kiddo and for this memory of us at a museum and for the body that still lets me climb right in :D
@BelleMadre
Are you on the space-station,… the admitted one?
@luftballooneyegouge i Wish :D
i was in a local childrens museum, basically turning child friendly displays into Doctor Who episodes :D
@BelleMadre Funny you say that because the first time I saw the new Dr Who, she reminded me of you.
@BelleMadre That’s is so sweet that your mother entered your dream on her birthday eve. Our subconscious is so strong, isn’t it?
I think you are a in a space thingie at the museum.
I continue to be grateful for my dad’s recovery from a stroke. The vascular surgery took longer than expected because they found more blockage than they expected.
But today he’s back at home, re-adjusting to his new reality.
While a stroke is not something one looks forward to, reaping the positives from it is a rare exercise in the kind of peace and joy Christ teaches. As we re-examine what happened, we see the many miracles along the way. While it would have been nice for it to never had happened, that is not the nature of reality. So we count how fortunate it was that he was already in the hospital for another concern when it happened; and that it was caught quickly by attentive nursing staff.
You never seem to appreciate something precious until you come face-to-face with losing it. This applies both to the family who have a new appreciation for our sole existing patriarch, and to my dad with his renewed zeal to make the most of each day and work towards the goals we’ve been given relating to community and the helping of one another.
And I’ve gained a fresh appreciation for just what is truly important. It’s profound the number of things I thought were truly important before this happened. And then for a month they were so far down the list of important things.
And now as I come back to tend to them I find that they’re still there. They haven’t really changed that much. They trundled along just fine without constant attention or concern from me.
Yet for the longest time, I mistakenly thought they were the things that needed/deserved my “best” attention!
What are you expending energy and effort on that might not really matter in the long run? And at what expense to things that really do matter?
@griz So glad to hear the surgery went well.
It’s human nature that we get stuck in these cycles of putting our energy into things that don’t really matter. Life will always throw things at us to bring us back to what really matters.
Peace and comfort to you and your family.
@griz very positive outlook you have! i am grateful to you for sharing your words. and for medical science for helping your father.
i havent forgotten our conversation, just right now my life is calling me to expend more energy at work and home than most elsewhere. i am trying to figure out how to give more time to the things that would be good for me, spiritual and physical practice etc… but right now a woman can only go in so many directions and all i can seem to pull off in my spare time is a few rounds of uno with the youngster and maybe an audio book while i fold sweaters :D
more on that later. drive safe as always and i hope your family thrives and heals!
@BelleMadre
While I always appreciate hearing from you, I would not like to hear it’s taking you from other important things in your life!
Especially your “true treasure”!
@griz i promise i prioritize! how are things?
@BelleMadre
Good. My folks’ health is improving (remembering my mom lived off adrenalyn for over a month). My health is good, considering all the hard work and long hours I’ve been pulling to make up for time off for family concerns.
I’m on a cycle of repeat runs to the Atlanta region and back home again. You really become familiar with the highways, the sights, the good places to stop.
How are things back there? I hear there could be some winter weather on the way. I’ll probably see some snow in the West Virginia highlands, and be back home just after the clean-up has finished.
@griz still trudging through winter, being careful out there but not enough to keep the sinus colds at bay. will push through, we are toughies :)
hope things are well. i havent been on in a while, will go see whats new now.
Today I am grateful for my body, and a huge call out for my feet. I put 5.5 miles (8.851392 kilometers) on them at last Saturday’s march.
I am grateful for all who marched across the globe.
I have been trying all day to try to post this favorite march sign, but the site won’t let me post, only respond.
Here you go.