Today, I’m grateful for…

1. my home
2. my husband
3. the joy I have when he comes home
4. my daughters
5. my sons-in-law
6. the future
7. Bahrain
8. vaccines
9. clean water
10. wearing flip flops every day for a year
11. surviving the last year
12. gifts of the heart
13. the healthy pizza I had for dinner
14. Al Raja School
15. good neighbors
16. books to read
17. more people forced to deal with the reality of white supremacy than the previous year
18. being in a new civil rights chapter
19. notebooks to jot in
20. peace
21. love
22. joy
23. patience
24. kindness
25. goodness
26. gentleness
27. faithfulness
28. self-control
29. and those who live in the fruit of the Spirit
30. fancy car horns that make me smile
31. calendars
32. friends to drink tea with
33. friends to write poetry with
34. friends to blog with
35. children’s laughter
36. board games
37. a cushy chair at my dining room table
38. being able to teach part time and a variety of experiences this year
39. retirement coming
40. cookies
41. ginger molasses cookies
42. chocolate chip cookies
43. chocolate crinkle cookies
44. soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese icing
45. oatmeal raisin cookies
46. Lent and how when it’s over I’ll eat cookies again
47. Jesus
48. Christians who act like Jesus
49. rainbows
50. crocheting
51. creating
52. call to prayer
53. letters in the mail
54. a clean page
55. new earbuds
56. smiling
57. the paintings  around my apartment–
58. the tropical flower my daughter painted in high school
59. the Bahrain map
60. the souq
61. Rachel Maddow
62. Kamala Harris
63. Joe Biden
64. wool, cotton and linen yarn
65. my avocado sapling
66. all my houseplants
67. avocados
68. sourdough
69. kiwi
70. navel oranges from Egypt
71. Fuji apples
72. karak tea
73. electricity
74. clean power
75. reducing
76. using up leftovers
77. students who keep learning
78. students who bring joy to teaching (Fran McCrackin’s sweet student yesterday)
79. wind (Kevin’s poem “That Wind of Gust and Din” reminded me how I love a good wind storm)
80. winds that don’t do damage
81. Trevor Noah
82. Hagar seeing the God who sees her
83. Bartimaeus seeing more than the people around him
84. my sisters and brothers
85. my pressure cooker
86. losing 30 pounds this year
87. someday buying new clothes
88. someday going to a party
89. Special Olympics
90. spelling bees
91. mops to clean up spills
92. the memory foam pad on my bed
93. hard drives to share files and not have to upload for hours at a time
94. fast Internet when I have it
95. hearing so many different languages when I walk in my neighborhood
96. tissues
97. Fitbit
98. church that can still meet online
99. a future and a hope
100. my home