I have mentioned that my 2018 planner has a section to keep a weekly gratitude list. Here are some highlights from my gratitude lists for October:
- the violin
- acceptance from friends
- the Old Testament class about Eve, the Fall, and the Temple
- kitchen is painted
- large chips and queso with Richard at Costa Vida
- trip to SLC to look for art
- Spring Lake home preserved from mudslide
- my friends at quilt group
- Tim’s Frisbee awesomeness
- surprise notes of gratitude
- family room painted
- Pioneer Woman chocolate Texas sheet cake
- my violin students
- happy missionary letters
- the smell of apples and cinnamon in the kitchen
- feeling needed
- a fairy garden in my neighborhood!
- Mark’s room painted
- dinner with friends
- Someone is willing to carry a package to Daniel’s mission home.
- Mark honored as patriot of the month
- listening to Harry Potter audio books while painting with Mark
- sweet visit with an elderly sister
- courage to reach out to a prickly pear kind of person
- protected while driving
- Truth shines through Book of Mormon passages as I try to make sense of a friend’s struggles with church doctrine and practices.
- Helaman 14:30-31
- the Book of Mormon
- velcro command strips
- Excedrin
- 2 band concerts for Timothy
- writing
- La Caille in golden fall light
- sewing with a friend
- the song from Coco, Proud Corazon
- Tim playing Rachmaninoff at the recital. Wow!
- Natalie Arcilesi, our piano teacher
- Youth leaders and teachers Steve Souter, Roger Christensen
- Dean Brockbank, new YM president
- Janine
- Gisela
- Reva
- honestly needing nothing
My heart has been a bit heavy this month with feelings of loneliness, fragility, and rejection. I have had mouth ulcers and possibly toothache. But looking at this list, I can say it has also been a very good month.