Day 316, Saturday, November 16, 2024

Day 316, Saturday, November 16, 2024

Reflections

There is always something to be thankful for!

Inspiration

I’m grateful to my body and mind for my life.
I’m grateful to my parents for my childhood.
I’m grateful to my husband for a lifetime of love and companionship.
I’m grateful to my children for maternal love they stir which blossoms in my heart.
I’m grateful to my friends, the Mindful Writers and Creators for their gracious presence in my life, 
for strengthening and helping me spread in expanding circles my life’s Calling.

In my seventh decade of life, I certainly think of my death. But I can’t emphasize enough the awe I feel for getting an opportunity to live this wonderful life.

I know and hear all kinds of people within the country and all around the world 
who have suffered and are suffering. I may not have experienced pain and suffering at that level. Suffering is as much a fact as my life as is joy. But I can’t help but be awestruck and filled with gratitude as I far back as I remember from the vantage point of 77.

I have been fortunate to have been given much more than I have given in return.

I have been fortunate to have painted pictures, read, reflected and absorbed, written books, traveled the world and shared what I thought would be beneficial to those who listened and read. But most of all I am fortunate to have been born a human being, a woman, born to my parents, married to my husband, having two daughters, two granddaughters, and two grandsons. How can I not call such a journey of enormous privileges an awesome, wonderous, and delightful adventure!

Journal Prompt 

What impression do you have of your life lived so far? If you could, what would you change? What would you strengthen? Write about it.

Today’s Practice

Meditation: “Gratitude”
Read, reflect, and journal.