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cashews, money, tea, chapstick, batteries, electricity, A/C, helpers, Mariella, Mary Ann, work…

1.  beautiful sunshine today lightens my heart

2.  prayers for Maisie a 5 year old with a very serious disease

3.  Helping hearts agreed to sew caps for cancer patients.  we truly have a group of loving, caring individuals at Unity.

4.  thankful for perfect health

5.  excited that good friends are coming for a reunion and a 6 day visit!

6.  crisp fall evenings

7.  Training myself to Choose love, let go of fear!!

8.  sweating at the gym and so happy when the class has ended

9.  fresh cup of morning coffee

10.  Grateful for the gift of the day – love to each of you!

effective medicines during cold/flu season, paid leave, family, I’m loved

1. Still so grateful for the news last week that the cyst in my breast is benign! Hooray!
2. Teaching Zentangle to children who were fun and appreciative!
3. Sharing information and connecting people!
4. The precious hummingbird by my deck — miraculous!
5. Celery and radishes for a delicious snack.
6. A festival in our neighborhood yesterday — so fun!
7. Blackberry sage tea.
8. Dinner with my brother and husband.
9. Thanks to Tom (husband) for taking care of my car when the battery went dead today.
10.Starting on my counted cross stitch pillow again.

• A special day with my beautiful daughter-in-law
• Lovely fresh summer flowers
• Pampering at the beauty salon :)
• Lunch at the Mediterrean Grill
• A relaxing and fun girly day :)
• Relief from being on alert while law enforcement (Sheriff/FBI/Swat/BorderPatrol) searched for a criminal…
• …they found him hiding in an old horse trailer in a gully in a forested area
• On a lighter note:  we’ve often said if anyone in our small towns commits a crime everyone will know who they are…and “we’ll tell your Mother!”  Whoa…:)
• Doug and Helen’s 50th wedding anniversary!
• Love this from Wizard of Oz:  “You had the power all along, my dear.”  -Glinda, the Good Witch

For life
For more than I realize or acknowledge I have
For endless (truly- endless) information
For family
For beautiful surroundings
For knowing all will be well
For touching close to the definition of purpose
For instincts
For self defense
For our innate desire to live and thrive and help others

1. I am starting to notice that my body is returning to its original state, before I was diagnosed.
2. Oyster mushrooms
3. My dad loved the mushroom w/veggies chowder I made and surprisingly, even my mother enjoyed it!

1. God
2. A barbecue with family
3. Emily got a job
4. Kyelle got two jobs
5. Squash and peppers resurgent in the hot weather
6. Enthusiasm
7. Driving
8. Crystal

1. Waking up to another fantastic surprise! Sometimes you pray for something so crazy, so insane, and out-of-this-world that you don’t think it would ever happen, and then IT HAPPENS!!! And not only did it happen, but it happened last week and again today! Reminds me that God can do absolutely anything, even miracles! In fact, He’s great at performing miracles and completely saving us from situations that seem hopeless.
2. The book my friend lent me is absolutely wonderful!
3. I am glad my parents came home from their vacation safely and can now get some much-needed rest!
4. Oyster mushrooms from the farmers markets
5. Getting help from my friends and that they are always there for me
6. Being asked to write an article for the church bulletin and learning in the process
7. God watered our garden for us today!
8. Whenever my niece reaches up and wants me to hold her
9. Dancing with my niece and singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” to her
10. How much peace and quiet the rain brings… I absolutely love it!
11. Every day… increasing inner peace and resting in God