Gratitude ~ Day by Day

My blog friend, Deb Call over at Spirit in Gear wrote a wonderful New Year's Day post -

Try This in Lieu of Resolutions

Deb says this......

"Phil Gerbyshak's What's Your Word of the Year for 2009? caught me at a time when I most need it.  He suggests building your year around one word that resonates for you.  He gives credit to this idea to Christine Kane's Resolution Revolution post.  She supplies a lot of help if you need inspiration around words to select.  Both are excellent posts about creating something more powerful and lasting than a New Year's resolution."

Deb's 2 words are ...  "ease" and "savor."     Check out her post to see how she
has started and plans to blend these words into the fabric of her life.

My word ~  *Gratitude*        

HEY.... it's nothing new, and I even have a category already in place.  :)

 

I had tried to hold the word in my thoughts and really live
it, but there were times last year I did not accomplish that.

 

The day it SMACKED me over the head was a day in December.
I was removing 4 empty ice cube trays from my freezer. 

 

We had rearranged our kitchen early on in 2008.  Moving
the refrigerator, meant disconnecting the water line to
the ice maker.   The frig was in the house 8 years ago,
and although it's working fine, there will no doubt be a
time soon, when it will need replaced.
Rather than run a new water line, we opted to go with
ice cube trays.  I bought 4 of them.  I tried to remind
myself of the aluminum trays of my youth.  Be thankful for
these plastic ones where the cubes just pop out. 
I tried that MANY times.   But still every time I went to
empty and fill a tray, I bitched at how I missed my ice
maker, and what a pain these trays were....

 

Well...  in my mind, the rant of no
ice maker started up while I was filling the trays....

 

I was stopped RIGHT in my bitching tracks ....

 

I heard.....

 

BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE CLEAN AND SAFE WATER !!!
BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE ICE !!!
BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE A REFRIGERATOR !!!
BE GRATEFUL YOU HAVE A HOME !!!

 

Not only with the ice cube trays, but everything
else ...........  ~*~ Gratitude ~*~  Day by Day !!!


THANKS Deb, for the idea to HOLD the word all year through. 





My 4 trays.  

 

Comments

[Nathalie]

Hi Deb,

Just dropping by to wish you all the best in the new year, and I was wondering how you were doing??

hugs,
Nathalie

[debbiecall]

Deb, first thanks for sharing my link. Especially thanks for making all of us see beyond our mindless rants to grab onto the truth of how blessed we are.

A great reminder to spill our gratitude instead of our complaints!

[Deb Estep]

Hey Nathalie and Deb,

Thank you ladies for dropping in and
leaving comments. :))))

xo xo
Deb