Today, I'm thankful for me. I know that sounds totally arrogant and so unlike me , but since today is my birthday, I have a free pass.
I choose to be thankful for me. I have a difficult time liking me, much less loving me, so being thankful for me is a whole new experience. It is a moment-by-moment challenge, and one that has continual restarts, but it's a lesson I'm learning, and I think that's a good thing. The process is challenging, especially, on the days when the grumpy, old lady in the mirror seems to scream such terrible things at me and that bathroom scale scoffingly reminds me of another failed attempt.
Still, even with the silver roots that spring forth despite my attempts to hide them, those new wrinkles (I prefer laugh lines,) that crept up over night, and that triple-quadruple chin that cannot be camouflaged, I'm thankful for me, every last inch of me... And that's a whole lot of inches!
I'm thankful for the girl that I was, the woman that I am, and I'm even more thankful for the woman I am becoming.
I'm thankful for the gift of life (Thanks, Mom, for choosing life!), with all of its challenges, failures and successes. Each new day ushers in a fresh opportunity for me to discover new things about who God created me to be and for me to explore my gifts, my talents, my strengths, and acknowledge my weaknesses.
So, today, I am going to celebrate the gift of me, the-one-of-a-kind me, who dreams ridiculously big dreams, who uses too many adverbs and too many adjectives, who tries and fails and tries and fails again and again, who grumbles and complains way too much, who gets super-duper excited about things like spoilers and tweezers, who cries way too easily about some of the silliest things, who laughs too loudly at inconvenient and inappropriate times, who has been known to spew things from her nose in public places, who can go from the mountain top to the valley in a matter of seconds, who is still trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up...
I'm thankful for the me that God created me to be and for this long, challenging adventure along the pathway to my appointed destiny!
Thank you, PaPa God, for me....for all of me!
I choose to be thankful for me. I have a difficult time liking me, much less loving me, so being thankful for me is a whole new experience. It is a moment-by-moment challenge, and one that has continual restarts, but it's a lesson I'm learning, and I think that's a good thing. The process is challenging, especially, on the days when the grumpy, old lady in the mirror seems to scream such terrible things at me and that bathroom scale scoffingly reminds me of another failed attempt.
Still, even with the silver roots that spring forth despite my attempts to hide them, those new wrinkles (I prefer laugh lines,) that crept up over night, and that triple-quadruple chin that cannot be camouflaged, I'm thankful for me, every last inch of me... And that's a whole lot of inches!
I'm thankful for the girl that I was, the woman that I am, and I'm even more thankful for the woman I am becoming.
I'm thankful for the gift of life (Thanks, Mom, for choosing life!), with all of its challenges, failures and successes. Each new day ushers in a fresh opportunity for me to discover new things about who God created me to be and for me to explore my gifts, my talents, my strengths, and acknowledge my weaknesses.
So, today, I am going to celebrate the gift of me, the-one-of-a-kind me, who dreams ridiculously big dreams, who uses too many adverbs and too many adjectives, who tries and fails and tries and fails again and again, who grumbles and complains way too much, who gets super-duper excited about things like spoilers and tweezers, who cries way too easily about some of the silliest things, who laughs too loudly at inconvenient and inappropriate times, who has been known to spew things from her nose in public places, who can go from the mountain top to the valley in a matter of seconds, who is still trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up...
I'm thankful for the me that God created me to be and for this long, challenging adventure along the pathway to my appointed destiny!
Thank you, PaPa God, for me....for all of me!
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