Welcome to Wednesday and Thank you so much for your visit. I would like to wish you and yours a most wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.
Giving Thanks on a regular basis helps create an attitude of appreciation and gratitude. Often, when I feel my burdens of work, home, family, and friends become too heavy, I think of the abundance of which I am blessed.
When I think of the stress of my career working with the medically fragile and ill, I am reminded to be grateful for my own health and that of my family. I am also blessed to have a demanding job that is In Demand and provides my family with access to medical care and many other necessities and more than a few treats too.
When I am overwhelmed with all I have to do to maintain my household between cleaning, financial management, yard work, and decorating, I become aware that so many others have no place to call their own or care for.
When I am missing my time with my friends, I am thankful that I have friends to miss. I also realize that I need to nurture my friendships.
When my time is not my own because of shuttling my sons to baseball, show choir, or a sleep over, or getting up early to help my husband get ready for refereeing, I am blessed to have a family to care for and that cares for me. Also the realization that this time with our children is all too brief.
Whenever I am sad for those whom I have loved and lost, I am thankful that I had their love and light in my life and that is their gift to me and my family.
I am appreciative of you, dear Reader, for the gift of your time and sharing.
Please feel free to share something for which you are Thankful, that would be most appreciated.
From my post at Today's Motivation Station.
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What a lovely post - so inspiring.
I'd, of course, give thanks firstly and fore mostly to Husband dearest without whom I'm only half a person.
Then, apart from the obvious family and friends, I'd say a huge thank you to the medical staff who have seen me through the last few years - orthopaedic surgeons, nurses, plaster technichians, radiographers, physios, occupational therapists, our GP. Wonderful people each and every one of them.
I am thankful for food...in its infinite varieties. :) Can you tell I'm looking forward to some Thanksgiving dinner?
Also, you know, the family, friends, my very wonderful life...
It's always a good thing to remind ourselves to count our blessings on a regular basis. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
So beautifully written. I loved the part about shuttling your family around because so many of us long to be free of those chores but they don't realize just how much they will miss them.
I am thankful for more than I can write but I'm thankful for my faith and belief that all is possible for those who believe.
Beautiful, just beautiful and thank you.
this was a wonderful post..
and thank you for reminding us too to set back and see what all we have!!!
have a wonderful thanksgiving!!!
Beautiful, Martha.
I am thankful for the friends I've made through blogging.
That means YOU.
:-) Thanksgiving.
What another lovely post. I am thankful for the time I get to spend with my family. We are all so busy that it's nice to take time out to be together. And like you say your children grow up so fast if you blink you might miss it :)
Happy Thanksgiving to you all x
Awesome post, brought tears to my eyes. :_)
I am so grateful for my husband and the family we are building together.
I'm thankful that I got to meet you and your beautiful family...finally!
what a beautiful thankful post, Martha; to truly appreciate how much we all have to be thankful for! I'm thankful for great friends I've met online through journals and I'm thankful for Jesus and my family :)
Happy Thanksgiving! safe traveling!
betty
So much to be thankful for, and you shared them all beautifully!
I hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
This makes me think of a post that a blogger, Lana, used to do called "I Get To". She would force us to rethink the way we see things in life. For everything we complain about and say "I HAVE to...." if you switch it to "I get to" it completely changes your attitude.
Example:
"I have to go to my in laws for Thanksgiving."
vs
"I get to go to my in laws for Thanksgiving."
Totally shifts it in that I should be thankful that I have a husband and his family that want to spend time with me.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Martha. I am so thankful for so may things but, the people that make up my life are the most important.
i am thankful that i'm safely back home..
So very true. My fellow telenurses have been kvetching a lot at work about how we are considered "less than" the pharmacists we work with, and it has been a struggle to fight against that and interject some gratitude. I am, after all, incredibly fortunate that I am in a relatively low-stress field of nursing, work with my brain and not my brawn, work from home, and am paid better than in the hospital. So much to be thankful for!
Ireally like this post, and your awareness of what is missed and treasured!
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