Today I'm Grateful For...

Saying 'thank you' is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-Alfred Painter

Okay, ENOUGH with the negativity! I've written three negatively slanted entries in a row..so not who I am or want to be. So, in typical Sarah style..I'm going to cheer myself up and beat the blues (since I've already acknowledged them) by listing what I'm grateful for today:

*My hair: it's soft and there to begin with, and really long now! It's also a great color with dimension to it, even though I don't chemically color it! Which I LOVE! I especially love the red highlights that come out in droves in the summertime--thank you, Grandma! (She was born a redhead!)

*My super-soft, precious, beautiful Nellie Cat: she's feeling better and is back to her usual chatty self (much like her mother, right?). But she's also mellowed and older and wiser. And lately, it's like she can actually perfectly understand what it is I'm saying. She's following directions and sitting on my lap and cuddling with me in bed in the mornings. I just LOVE it! She's my little sweetie-pie, still, and my fur-baby companion and I just love & adore her!

*Sex: yes, I'm a lady, so I don't really like to talk about sex on this blog. Basically, I feel that my sex life is nobody's business, and it's not. But I AM EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for sex---particularly, sex with my husband! (Sorry for the embarrasment to my mother-in-law if she's reading this!) Someday, when my life story comes out, you'll all understand why I'm grateful EVERY single time I get to get between the sheets with my man! :)

*I'm also grateful I live in a time-period where it's TOTALLY okay to say I enjoy sex! Thank God for that! It's not some shut-in, off-the-wall topic that no one can speak of. I'm so fortunate I grew up in this time period--just for that reason alone!

*The photographs that surround me and the camera and incredible moments that allowed me to take/have those photographs! God Bless the digital camera and 10c Prints @ Walgreens! :)

*My glasses & the ability to hear/see/move/sit/stand/pee! I know, I'm grateful for those every day, but they're still worth mentioning!

*The morning sunlight that fills my living room--and the green leaves on the trees that peak into my upper window. I'm going to miss these views when I move from here. It really is so pretty. Hopefully, probably, I'll learn to love to new beautiful views I'll have in my new place! I always do! Views are very important to me!

*Organic candles that smell so fresh and clean and burn cleaner!

*The fact that although my grandmother and father were VERY sick recently, they are both doing better now. Not fantastically great, but they're ALIVE and they're HERE and I can call them both up anytime I want! And I LOVE that! I'm grateful for them every single day!

*My sisters: my dad told me yesterday that I'm a great Big Sister and that pretty much made my life! Being a sister, and a good sister at that, is so important to me. It always has been and always will be! Being a child of God/wife/daughter/sister/friend are pretty much THE most important things to me in my life! I hope that never changes! I'm so grateful to have all three of my sisters in my life and I'm even more grateful for the indivisual relationship that I share with each of them! I respect them, and as it turns out, they respect me--and THEIR respect for me means the world to me! I'm the oldest after all, and I have an example to set! I just adore girls--excuse me, young ladies! Beautiful, blooming young ladies! I'm so proud!

*Being married for almost 5 months--words cannot convey how MUCH I've learned since then and how grateful I am for the lessons I'm confronted with every single day! I know, 5 months is chicken scratch for most...but remember what they say "The 1st year is the hardest," and at times, it is. I'm especially grateful for my husband doing the dishes last night and going to the store on Tuesday! And last night, when he said "I married my soulmate, but that doesn't make it easy all the time," THAT phrase, and his realization of that (duh, I'm not easy all the time), I'm SO grateful for!

*The ability to read and write and think for myself. The urge and yearn to learn! I LOVE learning and I LOVE reading!

*As always, my friends & my mother, I'm grateful for them too!

*This blog, no matter how much I questioned (bashed) it in the previous entry!

*I'm grateful that I can stay in the spirit of gratitude, that I know its gift and I know how to count my blessings no matter what! (It doesn't make me a better person, but it does make me feel better emotionally/spiritually--overall!)

Thank you, Lord, for all of this and so much more! God Bless Us Everyone!

In Light N' Love,
-Sarah Liz :)

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."
-Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
-Buddha