Lessons in Gratitude Day 960

Somehow when I wasn’t looking, October happened. One day it was September, the next it was October and tomorrow it’s November. Wow.

When you’ve been writing a theme-centered blog for over 900 days, you’re bound to get some repetition in there. 960 days of writing about gratitude means that themes will recur with regularity. One of these is about time. There’s nothing to be done about it but time continues to fly by. We are very nearly at the end of the year, 2014 will soon be in the books. I ended 2013 by ending this blog after 901 days on December 31. I had intended to go into 2014 blogless, but at the last moment I decided I couldn’t bear it and began writing a new blog titled, “Consider This,” on January 1, 2014. I wrote that blog for about 35 days before giving it up and returning to my blogless state. I remained in this condition for several months, finally returning to this gratitude blog on a semi-regular basis on September 1, 2014. I missed having a writing project in the evening, so it was good to come back to expressions of gratitude. My goal has now become a thousand days of gratitude. So, before the end of 2014, I will hit day 1,000 and I will stop again.

I am grateful to have this blog as a marker of the passing of time. I began writing these daily posts during the “year of living dangerously” that was 2011. Along with my morning journal activity that I call “Writing My Way to Clarity,” this blog has provided a window into my gratitude practice as well as identified areas that I still need to work on for/in myself. This three-year chronicle, this snapshot of my life over these months provides a yardstick against which I can measure my progress.

This has felt like a really long week. Though of course it still contained the same 168 hours that last week had, somehow there still managed to be more to do and less time to do it in. Somehow we feel like we have to squeeze more work into the already full hours of our day. What if I simply refuse? Is it possible to slow down and still get things done? What are the consequences if I were to try that. It’s a tantalizing thought.

I am grateful for the passage of time, the changing of seasons in my life. Though they are coming faster and faster, I remain grateful for the opportunities present at the beginning of each new day.  And so it is.