Tis the month of gratitude. Oh I am overjoyed with gratitude. Today and every day.
Today I am grateful for the voices I hear in my head. I have sorta been flooded with nudges, promptings and occasionally literal voices in my head. I am listening.
I am grateful I love learning life (more to come on that.)
I am grateful for sweet children who have so much to teach me. Yesterday I was being inpatient with Bubba and he said "Mom, you are drawing meanness to me" ... punch in the gut! Note to self, SHOW THEM HOW I FEEL ! (another thing the voice in my head said)
I am grateful I am happy, naturally, it is my gift.
I am grateful my Christmas is up. It seems to take a week to do it, so now I can enjoy the holidays.
I am grateful my husband said I was the "glowiest person". He is absolutely the most adorable, sensitive, tender, sweet, gentle, safe, loving, affectionate and understanding man I know. He fills me with warm fuzziness and butterflies all over every time I think of him or see him. I wonder if everyone feels like this?? It just keeps getting better and better and more and more intense. Forever is a beautiful gift! I am SO grateful for him and our immensely wonderful marriage. (Sorry to be braggy.. that is not my intention) He is so blasted precious to me. Another gift.
SO while I am at it, I might as well just say it. I am grateful for my gifts. I have worked my entire life to be able to claim those without feeling guilty or ashamed.It is still a bit painful to believe it but I am trying hard to "own" it, love it and use what Heavenly Father has given me with out making any excuses. There seems to be something politically incorrect about unconditionally expressing gratitude for our individual attributes, gifts and talents. I suppose at the risk of sounding proud I will go ahead and say.... I AM truly grateful for what I have been given and have just recently made the connection between Heavenly Fathers love for me and those blessings. Thank You.
Thank you to all of you that care enough to read this. I love you!
6 comments:
I too am filled with gratitude -- I feel like I should (and am, I guess) be overflowing with thanks. I think we all lead very blessed lives.
You know, Jenn, the more I know you, the more I love you. You have so many gifts and I am learning them and loving them all.
I'm grateful for your list because it reminds me what I'm thankful for. I need to start my November Thankful list on my blog.
It was because of your Thankful posts that I started thinking more about what I am Thankful for! You definitely deserve to have a sweetheart that takes care of you...no worries about bragging about that or how wonderful your life is!! Thanks for sharing :)
"Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable." Joseph B.Wirthlin
This is the very reason I love your blog!!
I liked reading about all of the things you are thankful for--it helps me think about what I'm thankful for, too. It is hard as women sometimes to feel good about what talents we do have because we always have someone else to compare them with. I'm glad you feel good about yours because you really are a beautiful, talented, lady who is a great mom to her family. I'm glad I found your blogs, it will be fun to get reconnected with you & your family. :)
Thanks for sharing your sunshine with us!
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