My 100 Gratitudes Today

I am grateful: 1. I am grateful that I enjoy hobbies. And have a hobby cabinet, even! 2. “The smiling faces I encounter today -- I will let them assure me that all is well.” 3. “There will always be times when we feel empty physically empty, emotionally empty, and spiritually empty.” Really? You mean that’s just part of life? That gives me some hope… 4. “To be healthy, to do our part in this spiritual way of life, to be part of the endless cycle of the Universe, guided by our Creator, we need to give and receive. Both parts are important.” 5. “What is healthy giving? This is a fine lined behavior each of us must seek to understand for ourselves. It is giving that feels good and does not leave us feeling victimized.” 6. “Today, God, guide me in my giving. Help me give to others in healthy ways. Help me give what feels right, what feels good, what feels clean, and what I can afford.” 7. *****Oh I just love this sentence! I love it! “Singing, playing, walking by a river are healing.” Yes yes yes. And it feels so good inside, that I KNOW I still DO love to do things! Fun things! Good things! Healthy things! 8. And this: “Self-acceptance is healing.” Yay. 9. This is beautiful: “"To heal ourselves is a reclamation of the power we all have as living beings to live in harmony with the life energy and to fulfill our potential as creatures among many on this planet." Chellis Glendinning” 10. And this: “believing we can heal ourselves gives us access to many healing ways.” 11. “There are as many ways of self-healing as there are people in the world. Once we experience what is healing for us, we can go on to discover many more healing acts to share with others.” 12. I am grateful that I have been inspired to ask myself, “What healing things do I like to do?” Well, it is tempting but NOT healing to sit/lie around with the tv. It IS healing to walk outside. And to color. And to read. And to play/practice piano. And to talk with friends. And to knit. And to eat well – veggies. 13. I am so grateful that I am able – physically and mentally and emotionally and intellectually ABLE to go to work. Like today. 14. I am grateful that I entered that online auction the other day. 15. And that I DID stay in. 16. And that I actually WON it! Wow. I don’t know that I ever want to do it again – but I won the auction, and I get the thing, and the money goes to a good cause! Yay! 17. “Detachment means being filled with closeness and love toward someone, yet knowing we cannot fix or protect that person. It means we can be in emotional contact but don't have to react to someone else's issues.” 18. “We respond from our own center with what is fitting for us.” So there is hope that I can learn and do this? Yay! 19. “Being detached means we allow others to be in the hands of God because we cannot live their lives for them.” 20. “Detachment gives us an inner calm, an acceptance of our limits, and the freedom to live our own lives with integrity.” 21. And it says (caps mine): “DETACHMENT IS A SKILL IN LIVING, AND LIKE OTHER SKILLS, WE CAN PRACTICE IT. “ YAY! 22. “We can pray today to be shown the right way.” 23. “We can choose the good, and when we choose it, we can feel that the whole power of the universe is behind us.” 24. “We can achieve a real harmony with God' purpose for our lives.” 25. Prayer for the Day – “I pray that I may choose aright today. I pray that I may be shown the right way to live today.” 26. I am grateful “For each new morning with its light, 27. “For rest and shelter of the night. 28. “For health and food, 29. “for love and friends, 30. “For everything Thy goodness sends.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 31. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sould blossom.” Marcel Proust 32. “We can only be said to be alive in those moment swhen our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder 33. Kids performing at lunch today 34. Safe rides to and from work so far 35. A good healthy lunch of veggies, protein, whole grain, and an orange 36. Coffee AND tea today 37. A dav for tomorrow 38. Found my music books 39. I remember the days when I didn’t have a car! I am so grateful to have one now. 40. Even in my poorest days, I have never not known whether I’d be able to eat anything at my next meal. 41. I am grateful that I have never lost a home to foreclosure. 42. I do not even have to rent 43. The beep of the coffee maker this morning 44. And the smell of fresh coffee 45. When my colleagues and I eat at our little makeshift, as I call it: “breakfast bar. 46. That I have the luxury of free time. Like TIME outside of work to fill as I can/want/… 47. I have pens in different colors, and markers and lot so pencils and sharpeners and crayons and colored pencils… 48. I have eyeglasses to help me see and read and sunglasses too. 49. Good books for kids 50. Animal shelters and the people who support them 51. Blogs 52. Anesthesia for when I had surgery 53. Art 54. Modern art 55. Modern architecture 56. Modern music 57. Geometric prints 58. Safety 59. Stamped cross stitch 60. Vegan cook books 61. Time with my cousins when I was little 62. Dentists 63. Dog parks 64. ParaTransit form my mother and others who need it. 65. Employment in a safe and pretty place, where we have heat in the winter. 66. My graduations 67. Libraries, and Dale Carnegie, whom I think started them. 68. That I was safe through my hysterectomy 69. Second chances 70. Good teachers 71. Every day that I am one. 72. M’s help earlier this week when I was so sick! 73. Vegan yarn 74. Every minute is a new opportunity 75. The great math lesson I gave today 76. The good writing lesson I gave today 77. That I have such a good, and nice, aide 78. That the kids in this class behave so well! 79. That my principal does not bug me 80. That my neighbors don’ bother me 81. And don’t make noise 82. The expression “When life hands you lemonade, make lemons!” It’s old, but it’s good. 83. All the airplane flights I’ve taken, which have all been safe 84. That I don’t smoke anymore! 85. The health of those close to me 86. The smell of crayons 87. Hardwood floors 88. Email 89. I got rid of that guy who wants to date me, the one whom for some reason I don’t trust. 90. Safe bus trip with the kids yesterday 91. Safe train trip to Albany and back that time 92. The time I went to Montreal. 93. Right now, today, this time in my life, I do not have pain. 94. My teapots 95. My d.r. furniture 96. My Royal Doulton figurines 97. My piano 98. That my parents loved me 99. That my mother (still living) still does 100. That I was able to comfort L last night when his aunt – the last person in that generation in his life – died yesterday (last night).