Tonight I am taking a rest. I am grateful to wake up each morning with hope and the expectation for a good day. I am grateful for the many opportunities I have to create a good day for myself. At any given moment I can choose how I will approach what unfolds throughout the day–moment by moment, hour by hour I make dozens of conscious decisions about how to deal with what comes my way. We all do this, of course, and through our decisions and our actions we make of the day whatever we will.
This afternoon I received another “no thank you” e-mail about a position I’d applied for. This time I had at least made it to an initial phone interview, that I thought went reasonably well. Apparently not well enough to move me forward in the process. In spite of the news, I still took my usual walk around the Park, enjoying as best I could the sunshine, the breeze off the Bay, the antics of the ground squirrels. It was still a beautiful day.
I am taking it easy tonight. I confess that my heart is a little heavy at the moment and though I am grateful for many things in my life I am going to have compassion for myself and not push myself to write this evening. I will play my guitar for a while to lighten my spirits and will go to sleep as best I can with a prayer of gratitude for having made it through another day. Tomorrow I will rise and see what I will make of the day.
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