Gratitude

“You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”  ~G.K. Chesterton

“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It’s a way to live.” ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

I have so much to be thankful for today.  I have work that I love, with people who are not just co-workers and clients but family.  I have amazing friends and a family that loves and accepts me for who I am, and whom I not only love but like… a lot.  I live in a time when my possibilities are practically unlimited and when change for the better is afoot.  I am open and curious and the world is full of things to wonder at and be awed by…

But today is no different than any other day; these things were true yesterday and they will be true tomorrow.  As much as I love and value that we take this day to mark our gratitude together, I wish we could move through our everyday life aware of our blessings, that we could say “thank you” with our every breath, that we could be as conscious of our “haves” as we seem to be of our “have nots.” 

So I’m making a Thanksgiving Resolution this year – this year I commit to being grateful.  There is grace in every moment and so very much to be thankful and I am resolved to seeing it.

Wanna join me?  ; )

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’ that would suffice.” ~Meister Eckhart