It’s that time of year. Registration is now open. Any of my runner friends want to join me? If we register as a group, I’m pretty sure our chances are better. Check it out here!
canyonlands half-marathon
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i’m really sorry your mom blew up, ricky
- I am grateful for chance meetings in the bookstore. I ran into this random boy that used to be in my ward but moved to Boston (as I discovered today). He wants to go out tonight. I really shouldn’t, but who am I to pass on a date with a nice, French speaking male. Seriously, the French gets me every time. ETA: While I did want to go out, I forgot that I had talked to my dad about going out to dinner and since I’m out of town the rest of the weekend, my dad won.
- I am grateful for the opportunity I have to work with Sowers of Hope.
- I am grateful for my family’s Old Navy Christmas P.J. tradition. Justin is ordering them all today and I’m excited to have new ones. This year, the pants are gray with red and white candy canes.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
the basis of optimism is sheer terror
- I am grateful that tomorrow is Friday. Is it too early to be grateful for that?
- I am grateful for long, sweater dresses.
- I am grateful for Elise, one of my secretaries, who says funny things like, “I’m a victim of my own optimism”.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. … When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives.
President Gordon B. Hinckley
the example he sets is a first class ticket to nowhere!
- I am grateful that I found a good doctor to remove my tonsils. I can’t wait…you know, in the “I’ll be so much happier once they’re out” kind of way. Now I just need to find someone who can pick me up after my surgery.
- I am grateful for serendipitous circumstances. Because I’m having my tonsils out and need all of my vacation and sick time for it, I needed to change my flight for Thanksgiving to Wednesday. While this cost an extra $31 (not bad, all things considered), I was told that because of some weird airline thing, I will be flying first class on my return flight. So, it’s only a 1.5 hour flight, but I’m still super excited, as I am morally opposed to paying for first class and I imagine that this will be the only time I ever experience it.
- I’m grateful that the deadline was extended for my application to one of the schools. My heart just isn’t in it, so the extra days will be super nice, since I really would like to get in there. I do need to have it done by Friday, but that should be fine.
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James
When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.
Anthony Robbines
i am serious… and don’t call me shirley
Truthfully, I’m not feeling so grateful right now. I’m on the phone with freaking lame-o Southwest Airlines and I want to shoot someone. I hate how they’ve changed their Rapid Reward program. I’ve been on the phone twice now, averaging 20 minutes per call…and I’m still on the second call. So, on the grateful side of things:
- I am grateful that cell phones now have speakers so that when I’m on hold for five years, I don’t have to have the phone to my ear.
- I am grateful that I have spent many years in customer service, so that when I am given all kinds of misinformation, I don’t get angry, I just ask to speak to someone else who might be able to explain it better.
- I am grateful that while I am on hold, I can also blog and book the other plane ticket I need to book.
ETA: Perspective. So, I called my sister. She was at work and in a bit of a hurry because she just had a girl come in who cut off her finger (my sister is a P.A. in an E.R.) and the finger is not salvageable, so she had to go tell the girl right then. Kind of makes me feel stupid for being frustrated about sitting on the phone for an hour.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to 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.
Melody Beattie
existential dilemmas 