Monday on your Mind - April 20, 2020

UGGGH, here it is Monday again! It is 6:00am and I am looking not so forward to another day. The plans I have for today, not much! ; water the green house, clean the house, put something on for supper, do some schoolwork, study for my class on Friday and probably run to the grocery store for a person that I get groceries for. I am NOT looking forward to the grocery store trip. I am not comfortable with the current state of affairs, but he needs groceries. I don't mind being stuck at home, but I do mind the stares, the panic, the being made to feel guilty or embarrassed when I go to the store. Anybody feel the same way? As I think about the activities of yesterday and how that day ended, I get all kinds of emotions stirred up. I struggle to keep my mind from erupting into my eyes. I guess I should be thankful that I can still go to the grocery stores and they are still stocking shelves. I can have a life that takes hard work and not be embarrassed about it. But, really I need to find a place of gratitude again. I need to be thankful for what God has given me and my family AND the care He has placed in our hands, such as someone else counting on us or a new calf that needs some extra help coming into this world. I need to remember that when I am questions as to why ??? we do what we do, that I show gratitude for the work and be grateful that I can share it with others I AM (or many times lately NEED TO BE) grateful just for being Thankful for that ability to. .. Period!

Melodie Beattie:

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

I am Praying for each of you today as you learn gratitude, maybe for the first time or for the um-teenth time.

Dr. Carol