
Today, I’m grateful for…
- my home
- my husband
- the joy I have when he comes home
- my daughters
- my sons-in-law
- the future
- Bahrain
- vaccines
- clean water
- wearing flip flops every day for a year
- surviving the last year
- gifts of the heart
- the healthy pizza I had for dinner
- Al Raja School
- good neighbors
- books to read
- more people forced to deal with the reality of white supremacy than the previous year
- being in a new civil rights chapter
- notebooks to jot in
- peace
- love
- joy
- patience
- kindness
- goodness
- gentleness
- faithfulness
- self-control
- and those who live in the fruit of the Spirit
- fancy car horns that make me smile
- calendars
- friends to drink tea with
- friends to write poetry with
- friends to blog with
- children’s laughter
- board games
- a cushy chair at my dining room table
- being able to teach part time and a variety of experiences this year
- retirement coming
- cookies
- ginger molasses cookies
- chocolate chip cookies
- chocolate crinkle cookies
- soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese icing
- oatmeal raisin cookies
- Lent and how when it’s over I’ll eat cookies again
- Jesus
- Christians who act like Jesus
- rainbows
- crocheting
- creating
- call to prayer
- letters in the mail
- a clean page
- new earbuds
- smiling
- the paintings around my apartment–
- the tropical flower my daughter painted in high school
- the Bahrain map
- the souq
- Rachel Maddow
- Kamala Harris
- Joe Biden
- wool, cotton and linen yarn
- my avocado sapling
- all my houseplants
- avocados
- sourdough
- kiwi
- navel oranges from Egypt
- Fuji apples
- karak tea
- electricity
- clean power
- reducing
- using up leftovers
- students who keep learning
- students who bring joy to teaching (Fran McCrackin’s sweet student yesterday)
- wind (Kevin’s poem “That Wind of Gust and Din” reminded me how I love a good wind storm)
- winds that don’t do damage
- Trevor Noah
- Hagar seeing the God who sees her
- Bartimaeus seeing more than the people around him
- my sisters and brothers
- my pressure cooker
- losing 30 pounds this year
- someday buying new clothes
- someday going to a party
- Special Olympics
- spelling bees
- mops to clean up spills
- the memory foam pad on my bed
- hard drives to share files and not have to upload for hours at a time
- fast Internet when I have it
- hearing so many different languages when I walk in my neighborhood
- tissues
- Fitbit
- church that can still meet online
- a future and a hope
- my home
Gratitude creates abundance. You have a fantastic list of gratitude. I read and my smile kept growing.
This is truly abundance! I am part of a gratitude circle, where we email 10 gratitudes a day to one another. Your list is invigorating and inspiring! I especially loved, “the memory foam pad on my bed,” “fancy car horns that make me smile,” all those cookies!, and your photos!
I love this list. I’m thankful you edited my typo comment. The last show I saw before Covid was Trevor Noah’s performance in Salt Lake City. And to lose 30 pounds you must not be eating many cookies!
Thank you, Terje, Maureen, and Glenda, for your kind responses and reading my thanksgivings. You all are part of my gratitude list today! #33 and 34. Maybe someday also #32!
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