If you haven’t made your gratitude list for today, challenge yourself to list 20 things. Here is my list today:
- Watching a cat bathe herself in a sunbeam
- Eating good hummus and pita
- The smell of lilac
- Bird nests
- Bird eggs
- The neighborhood dogs and their names (Lavender, Winston, Geo, Hudson, Dolly. . . )
- Sunset making the trees golden
- Watching The Chosen with my daughter
- FaceTime with my college daughter
- Freshly brewed coffee
- Having a mentor who checks in on me
- Soft pajama pants
- Hot showers with fun shampoo in the morning
- Laughing with Ash
- Walking in Penn State’s Arboretum and finding the Chinese Magnolia
- When someone sends me a picture of a turtle they found
- When students email me their life updates
- New books (I’m reading The Attributes of God by Arthur Pink)
- My marketing people at Moody
- Podcast interviews