It has been a rich weekend. Friday night I took in a very good movie (Silver Linings Playbook – you must see it) with my beloved. Saturday held a long-anticipated lunch out with my life-long “girl-friends”. Sunday morning worship – I wasn’t preaching, Kevin was so I actually got to relax and enjoy the first service and then at the second service I was able to go out and have fun with the kids where we talked a lot about ‘God’s love”. The weekend ended with a great superbowl party. Okay, I admit, I am less about the superbowl and more about the party and it was fun. We left the party and walked out into a winter wonderland – it had snowed inches of fresh white brillance. It was a stellar weekend from start to finish.
The quote, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.”, attributed to Meister Echkart, says it all. I have decided to make 2013 all about gratitude. It is too easy to take the slippery slope to being critical and grumpy when in fact my life is filled with miracles and wonders. In one of the Christmas letters that came in December my friends ended their letter with this quote from Melodie Beattie, “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” I have decided to make gratitude my credo for this year and when I stop and assess each day, each moment- I have much to be grateful for.