I am grateful to have seen a guy who dances freely as he walks down the street and he doesn’t care who sees him.

I am grateful for excellent customer service. It makes ALMOST all the difference in the world.

I am grateful that I belong to a church that operates out of humility, direction from God to our senior pastor and beyond.

I am grateful when someone shows genuine appreciation. My Mom taught me how important it is when receiving a gift or kindness to show genuine appreciation to the giver and to treat each gift and kindness as if it were the most treasured.

I am grateful to have been extended an invitation to my grandson’s 3^rd birthday party this weekend. This will be my first birthday party to attend for one of my grandchildren, and I am so excited.

I am grateful for new adventures, for the ability and the freedom to step WAY outside of my comfort zone and get on the back of a bike for a road trip. Who woulda thunk it. ME, on a motorcycle again.

I am grateful for the requirement to pack light – it prevented me from spending too much money at the toy store last night.

I am grateful for a beautiful hawk that decided to grace us with its presence this morning, just outside the windows of a coworker’s office. Our coworker even watched it grab a mouse and swallow it whole. At one point, for about ten minutes, the hawk was closer than the picture shows – if there hadn’t been a window, we could have bent down and touched it. What a magnificent creature…

I am grateful for letters from a soldier nephew. What an incredible treat.

And I am grateful for Sara today. It is her birthday, and I am grateful to know this young woman who is beginning a new adventure soon and learning so many life lessons. She is beautiful and talented and brimming with potential, and I am grateful to sit on the sidelines and watch her grow.

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all – and to hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. – G.K. Chesterton