I began this year's Gratitude Journal the other night. The idea, from my 2012 daily re-read, Simple Abundance, is an excellent one and makes me mindful of the simple blessings in each 24 hours. While not every day is paved with bountiful goodness from start to finish, there are golden days, beautiful moments, priceless parts that I wish would never end, could never stop, and might last forever. In the good and the bad, sun and the rain, snow and the ice, it is comforting to remember our blessings, big and small, and even though we go through our own life's trials, there's always someone having a more difficult time of it. May we each find comfort in our own blessings to blanket us on those extra stressful times and carry us through with Faith.
Anyway, the book suggests finding a pretty notebook to record your 5 daily blessings/gratitudes so this is mine. You can see my current favorite writing instrument nearby, a squishy zebra pen who, when pressed, bulges his eyes out wildly!
The following proverb was in a recent entry of the book and I liked it so much that I wanted to stitch it and have it on my nighttable to remind me about being grateful for my many blessings.
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
~French proverb
Here is the free pattern of its verse so you too can embrace your blessings, hold them close and jot them down for memorykeeping.~French proverb
Count your blessings ... count them one by one!
22 comments:
such a pretty notebook & I love this freebie chart, think I will stitch it and patch it onto a photo album :)
Such a lovely proverb - thanks for sharing your lovely design of it.
How nice. Thank you for sharing.
You so sweet..thank you for sharing xxx
I love the "M!" That's great! I'll start stitching it when my finger feels better. (I wonder how many times in my life I have grabbed the handle of the cornbread skillet....)
I've enjoyed reading Simple Abundance and keeping "gratitudes" for many years. They really do change your outlook on life!
Take Care ~ Jeanne
Thank you so much-
What a lovely freebie !!
These are beautiful thoughts from your post. Thank you for reminding us to be grateful each day.
Thank you for the lovely chart also.
Love your post and I love your new free design. I have been starting a lot of your free designs as part of my Ultimate Crazy January Challent. I am really loving them.
You can check them out on my blog:
http://kittenstitching.blogspot.com
What a thoughtful post from the heart. We do indeed need to take time and to be grateful for what we have.
Thank you for the free design, it is lovely.
Carol xx
Oh Thank you sooo very much! And for the wonderful words of wisdom that you wrote to go with all this. I will have to get that book also.
Thank you so much for the pattern! I love it!
Brenda
That is a must-stitch!!! Thank you so much! I may just have to take it with me on my travels this week!
This is such a lovely reminder to count our blessings, thank you.
Thankyou Tanya,says it all.
Amen! What a nice post. Thanks for the freebie, too!
So cute pen! ;)
Thank you for the lovely pattern!
I enjoyed reading your post Tanya, and thank you for the beautiful free pattern!
Thank you for the freebie!
That is adorable--thank you so much for sharing your talent with us :)
FUNNY I WANTED TO SEE CROCHET BLOG AND I STOPPED BY YOURS... VERY NICE BLOG WHILE SHARING WORDS OF WISDOM WHERE THIS WORLD LACK SOOO MUCH.... GRATITUDE FOR THE JEWS IS THE BASIS OF HAPPINESS, THIS IS WHY THE FIRST WORD WHEN WE PRAY IN THE MORNING IS " MODE ANI.....
SAYING THAT IF WE KNOW TO APPRECIATE WHAT GOD GIVES US EVERY DAY, EYES TO SEE, LEGS TO WALK, ETC... THINGS THAT FOR MILLIONS YOU WOULD NOT GIVE away, THAN YOU CAN START TO BE HAPPY,...
HAVE A GOOD WEEK END.
IT WAS NICE FOR ME TO CROSS YOUR BLOG...
Thank you, Muriel - glad you stopped by :)
Tanya
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