Tonight I am grateful for good friends. I have been adopted by my friend’s family. Through my friendship with one person, I have extended my circle to include their spouse and children. Because of this extended friendship I not only have the support and connection to my friend, but I was able to get my current work through the efforts of her partner. I’ve spent a lot of time in conversation with the family and have been fed by them more times than I can count. I hold each of them in high regard and appreciate them for who they are and have become in my life. Over the course of the past year, at a time when I felt like I lost a lot, I can’t measure how much I value the connection I have with my friend and through her, with her family. This evening Michal and I went out with my friend and her family to celebrate my birthday. The six of us had fun talking and laughing and eating outrageously large ice cream concoctions. It was a nice way to spend the evening, particularly since I had been feeling so ill yesterday that I barely left the house.
As I look forward to the week ahead I am hoping for a time of continuing to clarify options for how I want to spend the next several weeks between now and, say, June. I have a lot of thinking and planning to do, but the way things have been going in my life, I need to relax and roll with whatever’s happening in the moment. Because it seems like planning, while a good idea, doesn’t seem to be in the plan for me. As much as I try to plan ahead, for now the only information I get is about what’s happening now or in the next few days. I feel like I need to be nimble enough to be ready to go at a moment’s notice. Like once I know the what, the where will fall in line, as well as the how. This whole journey has been one big walk of faith. I took a leap of faith seven years ago when I moved from relative safety in Michigan to the great unknown here in California. Seven years and many twists and turns in my path later, I am now in time of really trusting that what’s supposed to happen with and in and for me will happen if I can remain patient and steadfast. But oohhhhh sometimes it gets a bit scary out here and I wonder how I am going to make it, particularly when I have others partially depending on me as well. What I am learning, though, is that no matter how scary it gets or how close to the edge of disaster I may feel, I have never fallen over. The Universe/God/Creator/my higher self always comes through for me. Without fail.
I am grateful for this journey I am on and to be chronicling it, at least for now, in the form of this daily blog. Those who read along with me are sharing in the challenges and lessons learned and will I hope continue to celebrate the victories and offer comfort through the setbacks as I continue to walk this path. I hope you find encouragement from this blog and look at your own life through the lens of gratitude for those things which bless and enrich your life. May we all know happiness and the root of happiness. So be it!
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