Sunday Scripture

Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor 12:8-10)

40 days, Mar 5 and 6

For Thursday:

Today I am grateful to my Green Task Force members. These folks may get torqued up about the environment and everyone else thinks they are crazy, but without enthusiastic, passionate people like them and others or their kind, the greed mongers would have used up this planet a few decades ago and we'd all be Crackers!

Thanks for your unyielding passionate dedication to keeping it green!

I love you, fellow tree huggers!

For Friday:

Today I am grateful for cable guys that let my dog and cat climb all over them. It's nice to see men being so compassionate to animals. My animals are usually pretty good judges of character, and you, Carlos, are A-OK in my book!

40 Days of Gratitude - Wed, Mar 4

Today I am grateful for my friend Nancy. She is my favorite gym pal. No matter how I feel when I enter the gym, one smile or one word from Nancy and everything is right with the world. Nancy believes in me to such a degree that I'm sure if I called her from jail and said I was caught robbing a bank, she would be convinced I had a good reason behind it! Nancy emigrated from Iraq in the 80s and she has taught me more about what it means to be a citizen of this country than any history or civics class ever could. Thank You, God, for putting my path in line with Nancy's.

40 Days - Tues March 3

Today I am grateful to the little nutter at Panera that ordered the wrong thing for his girlfriend (got Hot Chocolate/was supposed to be Iced Hot Chocolate - how is that possible?) and donated the error to me! Yeah! Thank you, God for kind-hearted, generous people. They help restore my faith in Humanity!

40 Days of Gratitude Part II

I owe you three days. Here are my picks:

Andrew Lobsinger, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the inventor of the iPod.

Here's why:


Andrew Lobsinger - for providing endless hours of entertainment. There was a time when you wouldn't come anywhere near me. Now you feel comfortable enough to "show off your talents". Thank you for being such a lovely little man!

Andrew Lloyd Webber - for providing endless hours of entertainment. Your plays have inspired me, comforted me, humored me. They're like old friends that blow into town occasionally and sweep me off my feet

the inventor of the iPod - for providing endless hours of entertainment. My iPod allows me relative obscurity when I'm in the hot room at the gym. It allows me to check out for a while and just really relax and reconnect.

See you soon!

40 Days Of Gratitude

Stole this from my bff ( http://thinkingdiva.blogspot.com/ )

"Welcome to 40 Days of Gratitude.

Here's how it works: pick a person in your life (at home, at work, in the family, God counts too) to thank for something [anything] once a day for the 40 Days of Lent. Be unrelenting in gratitude. Think to thank. Set a low bar so you can clear it everyday. You don't have to bring the person you thank to tears of joy. Just a simple thanks for the simple things. At least once a day, every day, catch 'em doing something that a thankful person would be thankful for and pretend you're that person!

Of course, you're free to do it some other way if you like (I'm blogging it). But do something. Lent is the time frame that it takes most of us to form a new habit--roughly six weeks. Wouldn't it be great to have the new habit of daily gratitude? After Easter, you'll be a more thankful person."

okay, so because I'm a few days behind, today I am giving thanks to the following:

My BFF, my good friend Tim, and Jade, the pool room attendant at my gym. Here's why:


My BFF - for too many reasons to list. Mostly for swooping in when I most need it and keeping me from going face down in my chicken soup. - you rock!

Tim - for holding my hand through the last (2 months for me, 6 months for you) few months as we watched them rip the band-aid off so slowly. Some days you were the only thing keeping me together

Jade - even though your job sucks buckets! you are mostly in a good mood and always up for some good conversation. I'd probably still come to the gym if you weren't there, but you make the experience that much less painful.

Okay, so, see you next time!