It’s the season of Thanksgiving! Whatever we may be going through, I can almost guarantee that everyone has someone or something in their lives to be grateful for.
This morning I woke up to beautiful sunshine and was greeted by coffee brewing. Optimism filled the air.
I had the greatest weekend enjoying time with my sister and brother-in-law, golfing and fun times with friends.
I am so grateful for my family and the love and relationship we all share as we go through the ups and downs of life encouraging each other along the way. The grandkids are such a blessing too and help us to see the world again through a kid’s lens.
I appreciate my job and the people I work with; we are a melting pot of young and old and in-betweens but we are all working together to accomplish a purpose and let me not forget the paycheque…that makes me pretty happy, too.
My flowers and garden this year brought so much joy everyday, and even still as the garden continues to bring forth the fruits of our labour.
This year new experiences created grape jelly and syrup from our own concord grapes, although the jelly turned into the syrup and the syrup turned into the jelly. I guess we still win both ways. The homemade salsa from the garden tomatoes and a plethora of different peppers both mild and hot turned out super good too, and will be appreciated during the long winter months.
There’s no end to things to be thankful for even during pandemic and uncertain times we continue to go through.
Most of all, I am thankful for my faith that continues to keep me looking up.
Thankfulness and hope seem to go hand in hand so I hope that people will continue to be kind and understanding of each other’s views and opinions. We could all take a little advice from the Native American proverb that states, “Never judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins.”
We all are formed by our DNA, individual thoughts, life-experiences and such that make us all unique just like each snowflake is different. Let’s just be thankful and enjoy life and people for who and what they are…everybody is ‘a somebody’ to someone!
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