Day 1046

A few years back, I discovered that chocolate gives me migraines. Now, I loved chocolate with a passion, but when it landed me in the ER, I had to bid it farewell. Poor me…until caramels entered my life! I was grateful!

Miss Lilly has some health issues that were predicted to become life-threatening last August. Given a short time to process this and a shorter prognosis for our sweet girl, we headed down to the University of Minnesota Small Animal Hospital where they gave us hope through treatments to keep her issues from accelerating. We are grateful.

Gratitude is a funny beast. We feel it well up in our very beings when wonderful things take place, but it is often a flash in the pan as we move forward with life. To honor “gratitude,” it would seem that we need to take the time to sit with it and examine the feeling.

Deserving our full attention for the amazing emotions associated with gratitude, taking the time to let it fill our souls and actually feel the elation is necessary. Grab it, hold on to it and allow it to humble your spirit. You see, gratitude typically arrives after we experience something good that we didn’t expect or deserve…something we had little control over, yet something lovely happened.

Right now, I am going to take a few moments to be grateful for each one of my Goldens. Letting the feeling of love, fortune and gratitude into my heart is a gift to myself. The Goldens…well my heart fills with gratitude every time I look one in the eyes.