We don’t typically understand something until it’s gone and today that antidote was very true. For the last number of days (too many) our winter weather has been excruciatingly cold, but today it was 22 degrees. For many, 22 degrees is unbearable but when we experience such a deficit and then are given back it creates an opportunity for appreciation. Today, I was grateful for each one of those 22 degrees.

Isn’t this the case with so many other areas of our lives. I think the struggle becomes when our ability to experience such a drastic shift from one to the next is minimized. Change can happen so slowly that we acclimate and gradually shift. We get into routines and our normal becomes our ordinary. Our normal then becomes challenging to appreciate. This blog is my expression of gratitude and purposes me to keep my spirit alive.

How do you keep your spirit of gratitude alive?