Dear fellow
travelers,
Happy spring in the
North East!! and to you, I'm happy to have you as a fellow
traveler. I received many comments from my last Ponderings on
heaven. Very interesting concepts you have. All good!!
I was also very
happy last year when I settled down and wrote out a list of things I had been
gifted. It seemed to grow and grow the more I thought. Things to be
totally appreciative and grateful for. I admit, sometimes things I
just took for granted.
I need not ever to
take these things for granted. Be grateful for everything.
Things like an
entire paid for weekend in NY with a friend, dinner paid for by friends, a
great partially paid for trip to Mexico by and with a friend, and on and
on it went. I still have that list.
Currently I just
made a new one, and again the more I thought the longer it became.
Some but not all
items on my current list are----
Being one of two
speakers at a conference last month, the on going
complimentary
tickets plus my own free admission to an area theater in exchange for an
hour of saying hello to people attending. Numerous free art activities in
exchange for my docketing at an art museum. Friends gifting me a
container of Irises for the yard. A friend who is using a
picture that I had painted of her cat for the cover of her book
that she is publishing. Dinner at my daughters for Mothers
day. On and on it goes. And how can I not include the friend
who I was to take to lunch for her birthday and because of timing,
she ended up serving me lunch instead!!!
The fab yoga
instructor who always serves ginger tea and figs after yoga.
And the friend
whose goodwill bag I intercepted and because of her great style ended up
with many new to me items--OK I really didn't need them but---
The prayer beads
given to me by a very special man.
The friend who paid
for a live streaming conference and invited me and others to view it.---
On and on it goes. And so grateful I am!!!!
It is a reciprocal
world. Giving comes back in many forms, and sometimes not in the
way we would expect it. Be grateful and give and give, and
always be open to receive.
Just pondering on
gifts and gratitude,
Rev Linda
Patton ENTC
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