I am grateful for:

1. Chris and her talent shared in the lifesighs emails
2. Garrett’s always kind and supportive emails and his beyond patience with his house
3. A friend who composed a prayer and sent it
4.  the forecasted promise of rain that brings hope
5. people who can write a sentence like this: “those few precious days when the profusion of blooms paints  pastel pink clouds onto Spring’s bright blue skies”
6. …and this one “layered with chiffon-sheer notes of rose”
7. Tennie-tiny baby croissants
8. The girl at the hat counter who gently told me that hats, while fun and pretty, are not a permanent solution for camouflaging the creeping vine of gray reminders
9. The work of Christian Homes and Marilyn who chaired the fundraiser

 The offending action can’t be undone, so forgiveness is the only way to release us from its dominance. ~Edward Grinnan