Gratitude post

[averygoodun42]

I've been a very whiny girl, so I'd best try to balance the scales a bit.

Geoff is mowing the yard with the electric mower he bought off our former neighbors. I am grateful that he bought the mower (our push mower is great, but not when the grass is a foot high, as it usually is by the time we first get around to mowing it), I am grateful he is doing the work, and I will be very grateful to look out at a prettier yard.

I am grateful that the deaths I have known have been sudden, or at least not drawn out. Choir Director's mother and sister-in-law are both dying of cancer right now, both diagnosed two weeks ago. A few of us chatted this morning after church and the hell that another friend went through with her father-in-law makes me so very grateful that I have not had to deal with anything like that. Yet. I pray that I never will.

I am grateful for my health problems. They have made me a more compassionate person.

I am grateful for my sense of humor, and that other people possess similar senses of humor, and that we have managed to find each other. My prayer group are of like humor, if not mind or spirit. In the midst of Choir Director's travails (he's one of the group's members), we mentioned that we've determined an appropriate name for the group: World Association of the Super Secret Unitarian-Universalist Prayer (Group), or WASSUUP(G).

I am grateful for my gardens, both decorative and vegetable. The vegetable garden has provided us with salad the last few days, while what is to be the decorative is giving me strength, and a positive outlet for my dark moods. Gardening is a form of prayer to me, and I have been needing to pray. I am very grateful I can do so. (I am also grateful that at least a couple plants, did survive the sewer thing.)

I am grateful for the sunshine. And, dare I say it, the heat. It is waking the greenery after a very slow, cool, wet spring.


My to do list for this weekend is being revised on a daily basis after I overdid the garden-venting thing yesterday. My back and bum are not happy with me, again. However, that just means I get to watch more movies (or The Two Towers) in the cool basement, so that's not too bad. ;-)

And I think it is time for me to do just that. I will catch up with ya'll soon, I promise, though I have been reading, if not commenting.

Comments

[m-mcgonagall-65.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this positive insight into you. Having just friended you, it's nice to get to know you a little better.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

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