Truly, I’ve wanted to use that line – from Dierks Bentley’s “Living” – for a very long time.
The thing is, I generally walk around, from waking to bedtime, with a heart full of grateful. So when to use that line to particularly highlight my gratitude for “all I’ve been given”?
The first day of a brand new year – after a really rather gnarly and ucky year – seems like a good time. 🙂
Looking back, it’s hard to find much about 2020 about which to feel grateful, but it IS a good lesson in finding joy in the little things … that maybe aren’t so little after all.
I am healthy. My family is healthy. A dear friend had a giant (!) health situation (unrelated to COVID) and came through, if not unscathed, relatively OK. I have a home and money for groceries and cat food. My horses – if a bit light on water – are thriving – and they have water. I am fortunate to have the support of a truly excellent BLM partner. I live in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, surrounded by mustangs (and for that, I am grateful to my employer), and probably I am one of the people least affected by the awfulness of the global coronavirus pandemic. On and on could I go. … Why wouldn’t I be grateful? How could I NOT be grateful?
And there it is: It’s relatively easy for me to be full-of-heart grateful. For (many, many) others, situations of life are not so fortunate or optimistic. I don’t want to gloss over or dismiss those struggles, even as I acknowledge my fortunes.
“Sometimes the world’s just right,” and at some point in time in the coming year, no matter how brief (and hopefully for much longer), I hope everyone can experience that feeling.
With hearts full, 2021, here we come. May it be blessed.
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