DAILY GRATITUDE PEOPLE IN MY LIFE

 

I am forever grateful I have people in my life

who will stand with me when times are darkest

who will help guide me through the unknown…

who always offer their strength and love

and remind me…

I will never be alone.

MEMORIES OF LOVE

 

May we all be blessed with so many memories of the ones we love

people who adore us…

and whom we adore…

memories that will fill the empty spaces

when they are no longer here to love…

or to love us anymore.

LOVE

 

Love has been around forever…before the time of calendars and clocks

It has even been discovered painted on prehistoric caves and primeval rocks. 

There is no greater gift in life than love…those ancient artists and I believe…

It is a truly magical gift…as beautiful to give…as to receive.

Sometimes when I think of love…and how it’s transformed throughout the ages 

I’m reminded of the butterflies…and how they, too, grow in stages.

When I was younger…in my cocoon…unfamiliar with a world so new…

my vision of the world was limited…my vision of love was too.

I didn’t understand, yet, how love is truly a work of art…

and how the best way to experience love is with an open heart.

I did not know at that time…which I learned later, happily, to my surprise

how sometimes to see and feel love…all I have to do is close my eyes…

I did not understand, then, how we were all put on this Earth to love…

to love ourselves as well as other people too…

how it only matters that we love…it does not matter who.

Now I smile when is see people in love…people I don’t even have to meet…

holding hands at the seashore, at the movies or walking down the street.

Gliding along like butterflies…experiencing one of love’s unique stages

people of different sexes, different sizes, different colors, shapes and ages…

Where, once they found each other, and their two lives converge…

The experience a metamorphosis…and slowly…they watch one love emerge.

Which is why when I’ve see love…in any of the many places I have dwelt

I smile filled with the same feeling those ancient artists must have felt.

All those centuries ago…long before the time of calendar and rocks

When they were so moved by the beauty of love…

they preserved that moment forever 

on the surfaces of their caves…

and painted on their rocks.

7 MILLION SMILES

 

I am grateful for the 7 billion people in this world

with their 7 billion unique smiles…

smiles large and small…

and I am hopeful one day the human race

well have the opportunity experience them all.

REASONS TO SMILE

 

At this uncertain time in our history…

when every day our own government

gives us a hundred reasons to cry…

with actions contemptible and vile…

may we be blessed with the fortitude

the courage

and the perseverance…

to give the world 

a thousand reasons to smile.

A QUICK THOUGHT ON HAPPINESS

 

Some people are always searching for happiness….

they look up, down…all around

as if happiness is a buried treasure…waiting to be found.

But what if we are already filled with happiness

and our heart is where we store it…

and once it is discovered  

we find there’s no need searching for it.

Sometimes that happiness is hiding in our heart 

and may be difficult to find

Hiding on the other side of a door…

we’ve yet to look behind.

Sometimes it may be silenced

when grief and sorrow fill the air…

but if we’re patient…over time

we find happiness is waiting there

And once we’re blessed to discover the happiness in our heart

in every cranny…crevice and nook 

we tend to discover happiness

everywhere we look.

DAILY GRATITUDE MY SMILE

 

I am grateful for the smile that stretches across my face

and just as grateful every time I can take my smile

and put it on someone else’s face