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Gratitude

Very Grateful for

God’s radar

WLG lists delivered to my email

Ice water

The color persian violet

Finding a backup-files website that is not expensive or spamming

Finishing a big project

A quiet office

With air conditioning

Mom and Dad’s 67th anniversary today…and they are able to spend it together in their home

Cupcakes

So…when you see a word, or a bird….or a cloud that’s shaped as something…or when someone says the exact right thing…or the right song comes on at precisely the right time…just KNOW that you are THAT loved, that you are THAT special…and that those things really are meant just for you. ~Brave Girls Club

Gods unboxable ways

Gratitude,

Very grateful for

  1. God’s unboxable ways
  2. A morning of quiet
  3. Time to catch up on email
  4. And time to sort laundry into loads of pigment and not
  5. The discernment to stop at the task of filing and deciding instead to take a walk
  6. a walk along the still lake with Ruby
  7. And finally making peace with the builders, buyers, and owners of the too big houses pushed onto the banks of the lake
  8. Remembering to fill the bird bath with water and remembering the time Amelia filled it with green Kool-Aid to match the grass. And how the sugar left from the evaporated Kool-Aid was an all summer critter invitation
  9. This post by Ann Voskamp

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! Abraham Kuyper

God’s Leveling Up

Gratitude

Very Grateful for:

the way God’s grace lets us “Level Up” at our own pace

fast internet connections

learning lessons from gaming

hand-eye coordination

dinner with Betty

this song by Matthew West and its reminder for me

teamwork

listening to plans of a prayer garden

the Red Cross, founded today in 1881

sleep

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ~Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross

 

 

 

 

God’s constant surveillance

Gratitude

God’s constant surveillance

a sudden cool snap

Ruby, playing, always playing

an email whose contents made my burst out in laughter

time at the office to clean out files

finding a gift certificate

spending it right away  :)

finding a workaround with Cynthia

knowing that Cynthia and Maddie care for Mom

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~Coco Chanel

sit with it and listen to it — let it tell it’s story

Gratitude

Very Grateful for:

God’s Timing

a change in the temperatures

the possibility of rain

an early morning walk with Ruby

a movie night with Amelia

a gauze skirt (wrinkles already built in!)

biscotti

a quiet office this morning

tutorials

There are experiences, situations, weaknesses and frailties that are huge parts of our personal story. Sometimes we don’t give those things a chance to write their chapter in our book of life because we are working so hard on erasing those chapters. Sometimes in order to help the chapter END, we have to sit with it and listen to it — let it tell it’s story. Then, when it’s done saying all it has to say, it doesn’t follow us around so much trying to take over our lives. It has finally been heard. Brave Girls Club

Happy Mother’s Day

Gratitude

Very grateful for

God’s mothering of us

My mother, Miss Peggy, who is home today after a long detour

Cynthia and Maddie who offered selfless, mothering care to my mom while she was at the nursing home and the hospital

My daughter, who claims me as her mother

My dad, who nurtured me like a mother

Anna Jarvis, who began the tradition which became the holiday of Mother’s Day

The Florist Exchange who paid paid all Anna Jarvis’ bills during the last years of her life when she was destitute

Other countries who also celebrate and observe Mother’s Day (Denmark, Italy, Venezuela, Turkey, Australia, and Japan)

All the moms (and dads who nurture just like moms) here at We Love Gratitude

She needn’t be heard…. because she was known. ~Ann Voskamp

typing in the terminal

Gratitude

Very Grateful for:

God’s families

getting to the airport on time

typing this from the terminal–strong wifi

quiet in the terminal

a nice egg for breakfast

having a later departure so I could ease into the day

mom driving me to the airport–“a couple of broads living with broad strokes!”

a jacket with zippered pockets

remembering to lock the door

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ~Stephen Jay Gould

mindfully… just in time

Gratitude,

Very Grateful for:

God’s attention to detail

The poem, Mindful, by Mary Oliver

a book recommendation from Garrett that came just in time

sweatpants, now called by the gentrified name, “loungewear”

Carol’s resolution toward fun!!!

the safety of many during the Northeast blizzard

and the rescue workers and pubic safety folks who are there to help

Ezekiel 36:26

and this space, created by Crystal  :)

 

“The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.” ~Frederick Soddy