And so, with thankfulness, here is today's daily 5 list:
- I'm thankful for another year
- I'm thankful for family and friends who love me
- I'm especially thankful today for all of the unique friends I've made via the blogging community - I so love each of you, and love hearing from you, and your unique comments and insights both in comments here and in your writing on your own blogs.
- I'm thankful for time spent outside of the city today
- I'm thankful for the first day in ages without any school commitments
- I'm thankful for the reminder that showing up here each evening to make this list really is in my days - to constantly choose joy, to keep an eye out for things that would make good list items and really notice the things in my days that bring smiles.
- I'm thankful for a line in a Rob Bell teaching dvd that I watched again recently "You don't have to live like this." and the freedom that line offered
- I'm thankful for 27 years of life
- I'm thankful for brothers with a way better eye for clothes than I have (how unfair is that, by the way??) who use their talent to buy their sister new hoodies and things for her birthday
- I'm thankful for a day without tears, and with many smiles.
5 comments:
Happy happy birthday, Lisa!
Glad you had a lovely day to celebrate, and I really like your list.
I'm an August baby too - two days away! And I deeply understand the difficult emotions birthdays bring about. I've got a few more years on the clock than you, and last year was particularly hard. I'm trying not to hold my breath for this one, as I think it's going to be another tricky time...
Blessings to you, and here's to a great year of new, good things.
Jenny
PS
I'm going to try to start my own daily list again, inspired by you.
Glad it sounds to have been a good day!
Happy birthday, again, my friend!
Happy birthday! Thank you, again, for sharing your lists. I include mine in my meditations/prayers journal every night. It really makes you look at the day in a different perspective (I tend to reflect only on the negative, so forcing myself find all the positive changes the whole day...)
Jenny - thanks! Happy Birthday to you as well! Praying it is a day full of lovely things - I was holding my breath too, and the day surprised me with joy... May you know blessings that day as well! And, good luck with the daily lists - let me know how it goes :)
LP/CA - it was a good day... thanks for the birthday wishes... Hugs and prayers friend!
Chel - Thanks! Yes, don't these lists change the perspective? That was sort of why I started making them in the first place, and a meditation/prayer journal is, I think, a great place for a list like this :)
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