Five things I'm thankful for

Monday, February 15, 2010

safety on the roads today.
the silent beauty of the amber glow of the lamp-posts on the icy crust over the snow the other night
my precious daughter
my awesome husband that goes above and beyond every day
having enough money, enough home, enough food.

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2010 Gratitude Journal

I have spent alot of my life striving for the next plateau or higher ground, especially this time of year during the season of New Year's Resolutions. While I think it is a very worthwhile practice to have goals and to strive for betterment, I am becoming more and more aware of how powerful gratitude is. I've had many years where my New Year's goals are the same over and over again. It always leaves me feeling in a state of wanting--of displacment and detatchment. But simply looking around at what I have already been blessed with and the mercies that are everywhere around me, suddenly I feel deeply grateful. Peaceful. Joyful. Worshipful. A study by Dr. Robert Emmons showed that out of several hundred people, the group that kept a journal of gratitude made more progress toward achieving personal goals. Really? That is incredible. So this year, instead of making all the same goals again, my 2010 goal is to make a practice of gratitude. Of really being conscious of the blessings big and small, instead of the shortcomings and failures.

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