Blessed.

If yous read my ramblings regularly, yous know that I'm a reader.  I love everything most reading.  Books.  New books.  Old books.  Fiction.  Non-fiction.  E-books.  Physical books.  Textbooks.  Math books.  Shopping for books.  Shopping for to a greater extent than books.  Rearranging my bookshelves.  (I bring four.)  Attacking the page alongside highlighters, colored pens, as well as glutinous notes unopen at hand.  (I blame college for this habit.  Before college, I persuasion it sacrilegious to grade inwards whatsoever majority other than my bible.  Ironic, right?)  Those mixed feelings yous instruct when finishing a book--when you're excited to endure done but sorry at the same time.  The unproblematic human activeness of flipping through the pages inwards a book.  Sharing favorite books alongside others.

My sis tells me I'm crazy.  Normal people don't demand this many supplies to read.  :)

 

2014 has been the twelvemonth of reading.  Today, I finished book lay out 66 of the year.  It was a majority given to me past times 1 of my mentors during my senior twelvemonth of college.  I only got to a greater extent than or less to reading it today, 2 years afterward graduation.  Better piece of cake than never.  

This weekend also saw the origin of some other book.  This is a majority I picked upward several months agone at Mardel when it was on sale for $5.  I've read such expert things most it inwards the blogosphere.  And, I bring non been disappointed.  

    

One Thousand Gifts: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are past times Ann Voskamp 

The writer writes most her journeying to alive a life that embraces grace, thanksgiving, as well as joy.  Though life's circumstances are non ever ideal, she starts writing a list.  A listing of 1 G gifts.  One G things to endure thankful for.  One G things to praise God for.  One G moments inwards time.  Fleeting moments that should endure savored.  Moments that tin likewise easily transcend past times without our noticing them.  Moments nosotros bring to prepare ourselves to hold off for.  

I haven't finished the majority yet, but I started writing my ain listing today.  My ain journeying towards recording 1 G gifts.  It has made me to a greater extent than mindful of the modest things.  More introduce inwards the moment.  Washing dishes wasn't only some other undertaking on my listing of things to produce today.  It was an chance to count blessings.

1.  The warm glow of the lamp, cascading over the dorsum of the couch.

2.  Spending the morn snuggled nether my "couch blankie."

3.  Colored pens, highlighters, as well as Bible written report time.

4.  A still household punctuated exclusively past times the tick of the clock.

5.  Birds chirping their picayune tunes exterior my window.

6.  The flicker of a candle on the kitchen counter.

7.  Gummy Vitamins :)

8.  Warm toast alongside butter as well as honey.

9.  A vase belongings a dandelion, plucked from my front end yard.

10.  A grin sparked past times lather bubbles wafting through the air.

11.  Twist ties stored inwards a tiny, Fiesta pitcher.

12.  Drinking H2O ice H2O from a bricklayer jar.

13.  Sun catchers hanging inwards my kitchen window.

14.  The depression hum of the hard-working air conditioner inwards the middle of summer.

15.  A Sabbatum morn spent tickling the ivories as well as singing songs of praise to God.

16.  Sandwiches cutting into tiny triangles.  

17.  Pouring pelting as well as lightning inwards the distance. 

18.  Napping during rainstorms.  

It's in all likelihood likewise presently to country this, but I intend this majority as well as this listing mightiness endure changing my life.  I desire to alive a life of gratitude as well as thanksgiving.  I desire to discovery the modest moments, filled alongside blessings.  I instruct as well as hence busy during the schoolhouse twelvemonth that I lady friend out on as well as hence much.  I demand to perish intentional inwards my thanksgiving.  And, joy unspeakable that won't perish away volition for sure result.  I demand to comport this into my classroom.  I demand to tape the tiny triumphs that laissez passer on every day.  The types of things that tin endure easily overlooked.  

Blessed.  Incredibly blessed.  

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