What are you grateful for?

I'm grateful for many things:

- My immediate family is healthy, safe, financially stable (fingers crossed for them!), and happy
- Most of our friends are doing okay. A couple are on the dangerous edge of financial security, so we're trying to keep in regular touch with them.
- That we don't live where horrible snowstorms and REALLY FRIGID cold weather hits - I used to live in Chicago, and I'm so glad I moved out west, LOL.
- That Spouse and I did our financial planning in our 50's and 25 yrs later, it's all worked out better than expected. We were very, very lucky.
- That folks on the SF are friendly, fun, and an interesting cross-section of our country.
- That the Internet is an amazing thing, even with the bad that goes with it. Remember when we had to hang around to wait for a phone call because it was so important we couldn't afford to miss it? Yup, don't miss those days at all!
 
I'm grateful to live one more day, & whatever the day may bring. Today a particularly great day. The tests my wife had to show one way or the other if she had Alzheimer's disease. The tests came back negative.

Imagine how brave she was to get tested then have to wait for the results.
 
I often miss threads, and this is one of them. People spilled out their hearts and it made me ashamed for not being more thankful. With every meal, I say a blessing - I was brought up that way - but just saying thanks for the food before me is inadequate. What about all the other blessings and the years I've been given that I feel are undeserved.

When I look back on the lives of some really wonderful people who are no longer here (and left too soon) I'm reminded to take nothing for granted.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I often miss threads, and this is one of them. People spilled out their hearts and it made me ashamed for not being more thankful. With every meal, I say a blessing - I was brought up that way - but just saying thanks for the food before me is inadequate. What about all the other blessings and the years I've been given that I feel are undeserved.

When I look back on the lives of some really wonderful people who are no longer here (and left too soon) I'm reminded to take nothing for granted.
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Well said Mack - well said😇😇

I give Thanks many times daily —- much more since husband passed and I am trying to manage this farm on my own.

My lifelong friend and Trail riding buddy called me yesterday to see if everything was OK down here after the storm. She still lives on the OH/PA border. We chatted about friends we have lost recently because she is 76 and I am 78. Of my ex in-laws, a sister & a brother passed away within six months of each other and there were a few more losses as well.

Then she told me the doctors found skin cancer on her and gave her this cream to put on the lesions. When she told me it burnt her skin, I had no idea how serious it was until she texted me a picture. The burn covered her entire beautiful face and her entire front of her chest and neck.

It made me cry because she is the one that has picked up everyone in her family and carried them through to their end times and through their illnesses. She carried me when I lost my son in the car accident and couldn’t even finish making his final arrangements with his dad. She had to do it for me.

And here she sits with these horrible horrible burns on her from the medicine for the cancer treatment. She said she’ll never do this again and I can see why. I would never do it now that I see what it has done to her.

My point to all that is how fortunate am I, that even with my own self induced trauma from not minding my Ps & Qs through the years, that I am still lucky enough to get up and get to the barn every day, work through this arthritis, and keep up fairly good with this place.

I know that I don’t do it by myself. There is only one set of footprints in the sand and they sure are not mine.————
 
Imogene said:
Well said Mack - well said😇😇

I give Thanks many times daily —- much more since husband passed and I am trying to manage this farm on my own.

My lifelong friend and Trail riding buddy called me yesterday to see if everything was OK down here after the storm. She still lives on the OH/PA border. We chatted about friends we have lost recently because she is 76 and I am 78. Of my ex in-laws, a sister & a brother passed away within six months of each other and there were a few more losses as well.

Then she told me the doctors found skin cancer on her and gave her this cream to put on the lesions. When she told me it burnt her skin, I had no idea how serious it was until she texted me a picture. The burn covered her entire beautiful face and her entire front of her chest and neck.

It made me cry because she is the one that has picked up everyone in her family and carried them through to their end times and through their illnesses. She carried me when I lost my son in the car accident and couldn’t even finish making his final arrangements with his dad. She had to do it for me.

And here she sits with these horrible horrible burns on her from the medicine for the cancer treatment. She said she’ll never do this again and I can see why. I would never do it now that I see what it has done to her.

My point to all that is how fortunate am I, that even with my own self induced trauma from not minding my Ps & Qs through the years, that I am still lucky enough to get up and get to the barn every day, work through this arthritis, and keep up fairly good with this place.

I know that I don’t do it by myself. There is only one set of footprints in the sand and they sure are not mine.————
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