It was 1999, and I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store with my cart full of groceries, when I picked up a Family Circle magazine. I flipped through, browsed a couple of recipes and some Thanksgiving decor. Then my fingers turned to the back of the magazine, where I read words that changed my life.
I always thought of myself as a positive person, and it was easy to be thankful for the positive things. My family, my job, the vacations we enjoyed, the new house we had just moved into. What I hadn’t yet grasped was the concept of total gratitude.
Gratitude for the whole package of life.
And I read these words that rocked my world. They stayed on my refrigerator for a couple of years. (In fact, they stayed there til 2005, when a certain hurricane left things a little damp inside my home.)
So I sought it out on the internet, and typed it up to put back on my fridge. And I’m posting it here, in case you want to print it out for your fridge, too.
I hope these words come to mean as much to you as they have to me.
Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for you.
Beautiful, Lisha. I’ll think of this all day. Thank you!
:-)
I thought somrone else wrote that list. It’s a great list. I love to set my table and make everything look pretty for Thanksgiving. Just a little extra pretty to manifest my gratitude.
I loved your photos of your Thanksgiving table! A beautiful table usually means people you love are on their way over!
What a wonderful list of reminders. I thank you for sharing it and am thankful FOR you. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
And now I have a new copy for my fridge!
I loved this Lisha! And I adore the concept of radical gratitude, or total gratitude! Rock on!
Radical, or total. They both fit! We can, indeed, be grateful for everything, if we only try.
Lisha, that was a lovely post; thank you for sharing the quote within.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Thank you, Carol. As it’s now well past Thanksgiving, I’lll hop on over to the next holiday. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Ah… thank you…. and right back at ya and your fellas!
Great reminders! Thank you!
You’re quite welcome. :-)
Great reminders! Thank you!