These days I’m participating in a project from EpicThanks. All over the net today you’ll see tweets and Facebook posts and blogs expressing gratitude for the several blessings that folks encounter. If you’d like to get on the act, write a blog on the subject and link to it in the comments below. Or send emails to individuals you’re grateful to. Or write a Facebook post about how grateful you are. Or greater however, head over to EpicThanks or EpicChange and make a donation to support one of their projects, including a school in Tanzania, which you can see in the following video:
So, what am I grateful for? As you know, the past year and a half has been a time of alter for the Manty family. I am so really thankful that we continue to make progress towards our enterprise goals, that George is able to pursue his dream of becoming property with his family while still offering financially and that we are able to make a living doing something we both enjoy. I’m glad that building a organization has brought us closer, rather than making a rift between us.
But a lot more than the monetary blessings in life, I am thankful for the gift of well being. This week a number of of our kids have had stomach viruses. Whilst that has been a discomfort, it is nothing compared to the health issues so a lot of families all through the world will face these days. My young children will get past this minor inconvenience. Some families are facing a world where young children do not get nicely.
When my youngsters are ill, I am thankful that we live in a time and a place where I can present food, clean water and shelter although they recover. If necessary, we could take them to a doctor and get medicine for them. We have a washing machine to help in cleaning up messes. We have games and television to occupy them while they’re ill.
I am incredibly grateful that I by no means need to put my children to bed hungry. Or look at their starving faces and know that I can’t support them. Or watch them grow more ill by the second and face the reality that they’ve merely been born in the wrong place to grow up and live a healthy life.
I’m grateful to live in America, for all of its issues, due to the fact I’m totally free to worry about things like regardless of whether too several video games will lower their i.q. or BPA in their plastic toys or even the rising cost of insurance. I don’t have to worry about malaria and starvation and war on my doorstep. I don’t have to worry how I will raise them in a refugee camp or soldiers showing up at my door and taking me or my husband or my children away.
I as soon as read an post that talked about the blessings of several small worries. That is what I am most grateful for- that I have no huge trouble to occupy all of my thoughts, just several small inconveniences. And that is what I wish for you as we approach Thanksgiving, dear readers, inconveniences instead of issues and the capacity to tell the distinction.
If you’re grateful for some thing, leave it in the comments. If you’re really grateful, head over to EpicThanks and see how you can do some thing to express your thanks.