Being Thankful ... in Quotes

Year 2011 is coming. It's a new beginning of another decade in circa 2000.

Each day, each week, each month, each year ... there's always a time to reckon with life: past, present and future. All I can come up with for each moment is thankfulness:

*Thankful for the rough times I went through. It helped me to be strong.

For reason that ...

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." ~Mother Teresa

*Thankful for all my misdeeds and failures that brought me to the present. Now I appreciate life even more.

I learned that ...

"Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens."~Author Unknown

*Thankful for whatever way, form or appearance success presented itself to me; not maybe in terms of materials but something that is intangible yet, it makes me feel I lack nothing. My blessings are sufficient to cover my needs.

There is ...

"Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim." ~William Feather

*Thankful for my children for being patient and resilient in every way possible. Their understanding exceeds beyond the norm of children; when at their tender age, they demonstrated an astonishing capability in accepting our circumstance with grace.

I want them to know that this is my conviction being, I am ...

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."~Christiane Northrup

*Thankful for my daughter and son-in-law for giving me my first grandchild late in my life at 60, so to speak. This gives me the feeling of confidence that I'm not doing bad eh?

It was this experience of motherhood and parenthood that my daughter told me, ...

"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I want my mother to belong to me."~Gloria Vanderbilt

*I am thankful for my little sweet cherub. She safely arrived to light our world with her wholesome spirit and good health. I am thankful for that special bond that gives me great pleasure and joy and delight only a Grandmother can feel and tell.

How awesome it is to wake up from a dream and suddenly there's ...

"A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it aroused, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."~Marjorie Holmes

*Thankful to be here and being able to meet my kinship that I haven't met before and to get to know people, who then become my friends, of every kind, every race, every creed, in every place, anywhere and everywhere I go.

Because of them, I am enlightened to take counsel to ...

"Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

*Thankful for the many innumerable blessings since the day I was born. God is to be greatly praised and thanked for; He gave me Life through my parents and for all the beauty of His creations that I am so privileged to benefit from.

Even before my eyes open to greet a new day, this is what I always do ...

"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light. Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living."~Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian Chief

So in conclusion:

"To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.Such a life provides less space for our suffering because our attention is more balanced. We are more often occupied with noticing what we are given, thanking those who have helped us, and repaying the world in some concrete way for what we are receiving."~Gregg Krech

I'll be forever thankful ...