I am grateful for a new addition to our home.

I am grateful for a little time spent with Dad.

I am grateful for halfway motivation – it is better than none.

I am grateful my daughter calls me.

I am grateful for a Tacoma granddaughter who now messages me.

I am grateful for piano friends who have become more than piano friends.

I am grateful for the beautiful blessing yesterday of attending church online with my brothers, sister-in-law, and Dad, and then attending church in person at COR and singing out loud, unmasked, for the first time in two years.

I am grateful for new shelves and a little more order in the bathroom.

I am grateful this office building only has 6 floors to climb.

And I am grateful that the orchestra played Be Still, My Soul and Blessed Assurance…just for me.