This is the second post in my Thanksgiving series. Before the big turkey day feast in a few weeks I want to continue to focus on being sincerely grateful for the blessings in my life.
I am so very thankful to have a great group of friends. What I lack in quantity of close freinds is more than compensated for in their quality. They are the kind of friends that a girl can laugh with, cry with and tell her darkest secrets to... usually all in the same conversation. The common tie that binds us all together is our love of God and our desire to be strong women of faith. They are my encouragers, my prayer partners, and are there to hold me accountable when I stumble. Without them I don't know where I would be.
A simple and easy idea to get the family involved in the spirit of gratitude is a Blessings Box like this one found on Blissfully Domestic. A simply box is decorated and placed in an accessible location with slips of paper. Throughout the year family members write downtheir blessings and tuck them away in the box. Then on Thanksgiving they can be read aloud.
"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." ~ Melody Beattie
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