December 14 – Appreciate
What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?
(Author: Victoria Klein)
Well, if I have to limit myself to one thing for 2010, I'd have to say ... nah. I can't just appreciate one thing.
I appreciate my motherhood and my children. I can't feel it or express it enough. My babies are growing up every day and being their mamma is the best thing ever.
I appreciate that my job provides me financial comfort. And I appreciate that I've stopped trying to find my self-worth in that job. It's not there, and I'm so thankful to finally *get* that.
Most of all, I have come to appreciate my health in 2010. I've always been rather robust, despite spending the last several years in a fog, wearing a cumbersome, heavy coat of general malaise 24/7/365. Now that I've gone gluten-free, I appreciate what feeling "normal" is. I appreciate a calm tummy, no aches and pains, a clear head, and ... delicious food on my plate. Thanks to blogs like Gluten-Free Girl, I'm able to focus on the deliciousness of foods I can eat rather than the depravity of missing the ones that make me sick.
Gratitude is a wonderful thing to carry around.
"I appreciate that my job provides me financial comfort. And I appreciate that I've stopped trying to find my self-worth in that job. It's not there, and I'm so thankful to finally *get* that." - This was a huge one for me too. It took a year of living among people in terrible poverty to finally get it: My lame little job is what has been providing all the comforts of home for both my wife and I for the past two years!
ReplyDeleteAnd what an adorable picture of mamma and child and all those curls!