DAILY GRATITUDE CHILDREN WATCHING

 

I am grateful that I’ve always understood…

how my children are watching me…

which has always helped me to become

the kind of person I want them to see.

THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR

 

May we all be blessed to remember:

raising children is akin to planting trees.

With much depending our our patience, 

our love

and our humility… 

Because as we give them our time

nurturing them

offering them our love

our food

our water…

our sun…

It is only years later

as we sit under their shade

when we realize 

what a good job we have done 

BABY MATH

 

When your first child is born…when you see your baby’s face

in that instant for that child all your love is placed.

And you think you have no more love to give 

but you find out you are wrong…

when in the evolution of your family

your second child comes along.

When you first look at your new baby’s face

you realize something you didn’t think could be true…

that somewhere from within your heart…

you now have love enough for two.

And you know looking at your two children

for as  long as you will live…

between them you will divided all the love you have to give.

But once again you realize your mathematics is all wrong…

as your family keeps growing and your third child comes along.

Because when your second child was added…you were, at first, misguided

to think the love you had within your heart…needed to be divided.

Then once your third child joined your family

you understood how baby math is applied.

that your love never needs to be be divided…

because it’s multiplied.

And though you’re not sure where it came from 

somewhere deep within your heart you found

with each succeeding child 

you have more than enough love to go around.

It’s true you’ll never quite know how it works

but you’re glad you’ve been shown this path…

that through the miracle of childbirth 

you’ve learned the rules of baby math.

DAILY GRATITUDE NATIVE NATIONS AND NATURE

 

I am grateful for Native Nations taught us about nature…

How nature opens up our hearts…our souls…our eyes…

How when we are one with nature

we see only one one life

one world

one sky

SEEING BEAUTY EVERYWHERE

 

I wish we all were blessed to spend more time in nature…

perhaps it’s the best way to make a country great…

for I believe if we spent more time in nature…

we’d have less time to hate.

Because the more time spent enjoying what’s on this Earth

and all the things above it… 

It is inevitable…nature will seduce you

and you will learn to love it.

And when you begin to love nature…

you’re more accepting…more inclined to share

and your eyes and heart will open up

until you see beauty everywhere.

DO THEY ENJOY THE SUNRISE

 

We like to take our walks early…at least we always try…

so we can be there when the sun begins to paint the morning sky.

It’s a beautiful time of day…if we’re lucky there’s a morning breeze

and as the sun begins shed her light…we say good morning to the trees.

And to the birds who sing their morning song to welcome in the day

to the flowers with their early blooms…to the rabbits who nod then silently hop away.

When we get to the water’s edge…to the pelicans we wave hi

and if we’re lucky we will greet the dolphins as they go floating by.

The other morning as we watched the sun paint the sky 

in yellow, oranges, purples and pinks.

changing the colors of the clouds as fast as we could blink…

I got to wondering if the birds who fly much closer to the colors painted in the sky 

ever stop to enjoy the sunrise as much as Deborah and I.

I wondered if trees we pass each have eyes

and if so do they enjoy all the colors painted on the sky?

Do the dolphins notice the sunrise….recognize how beautiful the sky can be

when they come up to catch their breath…as the float under the sea.

Does the ocean enjoy the sunrise…does it ever think…how sweet

that all those painted colors begin where the sky and my waters meet?

And finally as the sun is busy painting the morning sky…does it stop…once in a while…

to check it’s reflection mirrored on the ocean……and give itself a smile.

Of course until we can converse with nature…we may never know

If they enjoy the sunrise…the wind, the rain, the snow…

But I believe in miracles…I’ve witnessed one or two…

and until nature tells me different…I like to think they do.

DAILY GRATITUDE LOVE

 

 I am grateful that even though I only speak one language

meaning my multilingualism is weak….

when I encounter so may examples of love in nature

and all over the world…

one language is all I need to speak