Yesterday was one of those days that I didn’t post a gratitude blog, and I felt badly about it. The truth of the matter is that I had writer’s block, and not that I didn’t have anything to be grateful for. I just couldn’t string two sentences together satisfactorily enough for my liking, much less make sense. After getting nowhere for a couple of hours and feeling terribly frustrated, I put aside the laptop and started in on an project that was perhaps more important: scraping off all the adhesive on the medicine cabinet door that held the mirror in place, prior to its falling off the other day while we were enroute. Miraculously, the mirror did not break. I was grateful for having something better to do than feel bad about myself.🙏🏽.
I actually enjoy mindless activity such as this from time to time, especially when it accomplishes something that needs to be done anyway.🙏🏽 Prepping the mirror was no easy feat and a lot of elbow grease was required, since Liquid Nails had been used previously. I’m grateful it took a couple of hours to chip it all away; that gave me plenty of time to think logically, and I was grateful.🙏🏽 I realized I was punishing myself for being human–how crazy and counterproductive is that? Because true, spiritual gratitude sometimes takes being grateful for things we perceive as negative, I made my self be grateful for the writer’s block. Learning to be grateful for something I don’t want is something I must work on, and I realized that this was an opportunity to practice just that.🙏🏽 It’s mind over matter.
As it turned out, skipping a day of blogging was not the end of the world because here it is Today, and I’m back writing! It’s hard sometimes to remember that circumstances are transitory, and to be grateful in all things.🙏🏽 The experience was a reminder that “this, too, shall pass,” and was a lesson I apparently needed to repeat once again. I’m grateful it gets easier each time I do.🙏🏽
Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. ~Hosea 6:3
