Friday afternoon I was walking on the treadmill and watching the local 5pm news. A human interest segment came on and it caught my interest. It featured a woman who appeared to be about my age who was diagnosed with cancer. In tangent with her physcial healing, she needed some emotional healing, too. She began writing a gratitude journal as part of her healing. Each day she documented the different ways in which she felt grateful. She said there were so many things for which she was grateful this was not hard to do. In doing this, she found that it helped her feel better physically as well as emotionally. This struck me as something so simple. This idea appealed to me.
Why should I wait until something goes terribly wrong in my life to start doing this? Why don't I start this right now. I have so many reasons to be grateful. Documenting them in this blog is my gratitude journal.
First and foremost, I am grateful to the woman who gave me this idea. I do not know who she is but I am wishing her only the best in her journey with cancer.
So I begin ...