I am grateful

Morning stripes

Everything is a gift.  Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging.

~ David Steindl-Rast

I am grateful for the early morning mist and the golden light that turns the dew into jewels.

I am grateful for my legs and feet because they carry me on my morning walks.

I am grateful for sunbeams.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

~ Karl Barth

I am grateful for the coolness of the morning air.

I am grateful for the beauty that surrounds me, beauty that is always there.  I only have to look.

I am grateful for my home, the little piece of Earth I live on, the meadows, the woods, the garden, and the pond.  I am grateful to be who I am, where I am, right here, right now.

I am grateful for all the love in my life.  I am grateful for Life.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

~ G. K. Chesterton

Change of life

And I am grateful for all of you.  Your visits, your likes, and your comments.  Thank you.

I am grateful for the wild sunflower I found blossoming near the pond early this morning.

I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is.  To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling “graced,” or blessed, each time…  Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation — for being alive to have this particular moment.

~ Jean Shinoda Bolen

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