Today I am grateful for the simple things. Life can feel so busy. There is always more to be done. Yet when I stop and look around me there is so much to be grateful for each day.
Gratitude. How it fuels our perspective and mindset. How it fills us with life.
Today I am grateful for the simple things. I am grateful… For an ice cream date with my husband. For the warmth of a sunny day. For the beauty of fall and the changing of leaves. For how my husband dances with me in the kitchen when we cook dinner together. For the simplicity of a child’s prayer. For how God can speak right to our heart through a simple verse. For a smile and kind word.
I am grateful for how people and relationships feed our soul. I am grateful… For an unexpected encouraging email from a friend. For sharing my day with my husband and listening to his day. For the joy of surprising a colleague with a simple card and gift. For a hug from one of my students at the end of the school day.
I love how gratitude changes our view of life and others. I have already seen how powerful this is in marriage. I am married to an optimist. Which means my husband always sees the best in me and in our marriage. And I have seen the difference when I choose to focus on all that I am grateful for in my husband. We are both far from perfect yet gratitude provides a beautiful lens for our marriage and for one another.
I pray that God will continue to develop a grateful heart within me. When life feels hard or overwhelming or stressful, I will choose in those moments to give thanks. To look around me and give thanks for the simple things.
“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” ― Paulo Coelho
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