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Gratitude List: Day 11

The lists seem to get more and more difficult, and if I focus really hard, I can still skim the surface without digging deep. I’m still just listing what comes to mind first, but here’s an attempt at skipping most of the skimming:

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Gratitude List: Day 10 [Thanksgiving Day]

Make of this whatever it is for you. This is my Thanksgiving list for 2009:

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Gratitude List: Day 9 [Updated]

Today I fly to Houston so see family for Thanksgiving. I love having a family that doesn’t live close enough to drive to because I never had that, growing up. It was always so easy to get to everyone, and having to get on a flight makes it more like going on vacation than getting [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 8

gratitude c.1500, from M.L. gratitudo “thankfulness,” from L. gratus “thankful, pleasing” Have you ever written down a gratitude list? Maybe you’ve put 10 things on a list. Maybe you were glad you did it because it reminded you that you actually like some things in your life. And then you put the list down and [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 7

These gratitude lists started out as a way to be grateful and give thanks to the people and things of importance in my life. They’ve served this purpose so far. And then they started doing something else. These lists require me to do deeper. To connect with myself. To push past all the things on [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 6

The thing about gratitude is that it comes from within. It comes from a place deep in your soul that requires you to be connected to exactly that spot. Otherwise it’s not really gratitude, you’re just putting things on a list that you’ll forget about in a week’s time. Gratitude requires honoring those things that [...]

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Gratitude List: Day 5

Today’s list comes in a bit of exhaustion. Not exhaustion of the list, but exhaustion from waking up at 5:45 this morning. I don’t normally wake up nor get out of bed that early on a Saturday `morning, but today we put on a yard sale in front of our home. It warmed my heart [...]