A Dare to live fully...right where I am

#14 Storm Clouds...Silver linings

Thankfulness. Sure, it's easy to be thankful for good things - date nights, good report cards, our food.  But what about the "messes"?  My challenge this week has been to be thankful in the middle of the things that are not necessarily going "my way".  To see the beauty in the ugly.

The ugly - ugh, it's everywhere.  The struggle to get your straight A child to turn in his homework - ugly. The habit of children telling untruths - ugly. Those that choose to burying food in the backyard (yes, it's true) - ugly. The puppy potty-training, the loads of laundry that needs to get done - oh and the major appliances that need to be fixed - ugly.  The struggle to make it financially - ugly. It is all ugly or is it?

"Eucharist (Thanksgiving) is the state of the perfect man. Eucharist is the life of paradise. 

Eucharist is the only full and realy response of man to God's creation, redemption, 

and gift of heaven."-Alexander Schmemann.  

Eucharisteo - thanksgiving.

Thank-you is a word that can change you, your world - the whole world!