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A strong, happy marriage
Rain and sun and rain again
Tiny green growing plants
Composting worms
Palm Sunday
Cockatoos
Onion sprouts
Healing
Affordable and safe red hair dye
Antibiotics
Peacocks and their feathers
Iron supplements
Perfume
My mobile phone
The snoring cat
Rain
Sun
Beautiful sunsets
A nice cup of tea
The joy and bliss that is bursting in my heart, and which I gladly share with the world
The ability to type the above sentence without rolling my eyes or feeling silly
I'm grateful that my family were not directly affected by the Victorian bushfires
I'm grateful for the giving, fighting spirit of the Australian people, who have donated so much time and money to help the hundreds of people who have lost so much to the fires
I'm grateful to have a roof over my head, clothes to wear, a kitchen to cook in, a car that works, and an income capable of supporting our family
I'm grateful for the company of my beautiful cat, especially when I consider the many animals that were lost in the bushfires
I'm grateful for my continuing spiritual awakening and growing awareness
I'm grateful to be aware of the presence of God
Music, and the ability to hear it and appreciate it
My sense of humour, and especially my ability to find something funny in any situation, no matter how horrible it might be
My intelligence
Freedom of speech
My common sense, even though I had to earn it the hard way
My caring doctor
Books, and I'm grateful for the perfect bookshelves that I will eventually acquire to hold them all
Happy coincidences (even though I don't really believe in coincidences)
My sensitive olfactory system, which allows me to enjoy all manner of interesting scents
My excellent new hard drive
My new phone, and the fact that I could donate the old, broken phone to help save the gorillas
Alstromeria lilies
Garden herbs
My cat (yes, again, yes, always, always, always)
Affordable, available vitamin and mineral supplements
My growing awareness of how to heal myself
Scented candles
Beautiful rocks and gemstones
My relationship with the Source of All
Love of all kinds and every possible description
Abundance
Safety
Growing understanding
Budding hope
Being happy
Catnip (and a catnipped cat)
A good swim
Chocolate Scotch Fingers (yum)
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About... This blog is written by the webmistress of the shoshanna.org site. You can find out more there if you really want to know, but in a nutshell: abuse survivor, forty-something, happily married, long struggles with anger, shame, guilt, rage, pain, self-loathing, and various other ills associated with being an abuse survivor, now trying very hard, as Saint Paul wrote, to learn to be content in any situation, that is, to be happy. This blog is just a means of publically recording some of the things I have to be grateful for. Obviously, I can't and won't list everything, every day, and some days I may feel more or less grateful for one or another thing in my life, and I may even repeat myself, but I wanted to have a place to write these down. Yes, I keep a private journal, but making them public just seemed like something I could do that would not only make me just a bit more accountable, but which might also bring a bit of joy to someone else. But mostly it's for me, to remind myself, in a public way, that I have much to be grateful for, every single day, always. I made a resolution to be happy, every day (I don't mean happy every moment of every day; that's probably impossible). Thinking about things for which I'm grateful goes a long way toward keeping that resolution. Webrings < # |Elizabeths| ? >
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