Gratitude tune up.

So often I find myself aggravated and dissatisfied with whats going on in my life.  While this is by no means an unusual state for billions of humans around the word. I have found that this discontentment  starts with a decision that I make somewhere on the borderlines of conscious and subconscious awareness. How often do I Pray, hope and wish for a miracle to bring me the one thing  I think I need to be happy, only too soon, after receiving it, I have disregard this blessing as something that I deserve, and then its on to my next self proclaimed need. Wait a second! what happened to the "If I only had (you fill in the blank) I could relax. I received it, and now its stashed somewhere on the,"Ive got that", shelf, collecting dust.  Stop! Time to get out the Swiffer, I want to see whats on that shelf. OK, right up front there's my wife, my home, my car, and my job. Hold on! you say, I don't have any or all of those things, well neither did I until recently, but there they are, already dusty in my minds eye of how good or bad my life is. If I look a little further back there's my health, my ability to see, walk, talk, think. Hey! there's my family, I had forgotten about them,  what a blessing they are, even though they can be very annoying sometimes. Is there anything else back there? hmmmmmm? whats this? oh, that's the fact that I am alive and breathing in this moment with a God that loves me. That ones so covered with the dust of my imaginings of I-phones, flat stomachs and endless bank accounts, I cant even see it! I have found that with a little practice I can distill my gratitude down to the simplest  blessings that make me whole, and be at peace.

Important Things

This morning its off to paint the thrift store at my church, I only wish their was more time in my busy life of bills and work for things like this.

Today was great!

I got a job, and spent the day with my wonderful wife