Today, I am grateful for freedom, for faith, and for family that honors service.
Today, I am grateful for friends who are kind.
What are you grateful for today?
Monday, May 27, 2013
Gratitude Journal #189
Today, I am grateful to all who have given their all in service to the United States of America. This Memorial Day, please remember those who have died in service. Our family particularly remembers George's great uncle George Paloranta, who died fighting in the Philippines in World War II. Also, please remember that while we often count war dead, every year a number of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines die in training accidents. What these men and women do is not only dangerous during war...it's dangerous in training. Paratroopers chutes don't open, guns misfire, planes crash. Let us remember all who made the ultimate sacrifice for our flag.
Today, I am grateful for freedom, for faith, and for family that honors service.
Today, I am grateful for friends who are kind.
What are you grateful for today?
Today, I am grateful for freedom, for faith, and for family that honors service.
Today, I am grateful for friends who are kind.
What are you grateful for today?
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Susan, please thank your husband for his service! Many members of my family were in the military, WWII and Vietnam. My late DH, who was deaf, so wanted to join the Navy that his Captain dad tried to pull strings to get him in. Didn't work. Today I am grateful to all the military, especially those injured and away from families right now.
ReplyDeleteA many years back my Mom' Ruth had started a gratitude book. She only worked on it for a few
ReplyDeleteday...5, 6 days. When she pasted...two years ago, my Dad has such worries about if
had been a good husband, had he made her happy, after 61 years of Marriage was she
happy she had married hiim, had he take well enough care of her. Even though I kept telling
him..yes he had and all the things she had told me of how thankful she was to have him as her
husband. It did not seem to mean much to him. One day I came across her gratitude book..
And on every page his name was there...or/and something they had done with each other
that day and how she had enjoyed her time with him. Of course I run and showed him it.
Nothing gave him more joy and still does two years later for him to take out that small book and
read those few dated pages of how she was grateful for him...her husband Frank.
Writting our thoughts and how blessed we are to have God, our familes, friends and the
blessing of our every day normal simple lives. Can be a gift to us during hard times and a
treasue to someone we love after we have pasted on.
A many years back my Mom' Ruth had started a gratitude book. She only worked on it for a few
ReplyDeleteday...5, 6 days. When she pasted...two years ago, my Dad has such worries about if
had been a good husband, had he made her happy, after 61 years of Marriage was she
happy she had married hiim, had he take well enough care of her. Even though I kept telling
him..yes he had and all the things she had told me of how thankful she was to have him as her
husband. It did not seem to mean much to him. One day I came across her gratitude book..
And on every page his name was there...or/and something they had done with each other
that day and how she had enjoyed her time with him. Of course I run and showed him it.
Nothing gave him more joy and still does two years later for him to take out that small book and
read those few dated pages of how she was grateful for him...her husband Frank.
Writting our thoughts and how blessed we are to have God, our familes, friends and the
blessing of our every day normal simple lives. Can be a gift to us during hard times and a
treasue to someone we love after we have pasted on.