Top Ten Tuesday

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's theme:  THANKFUL/THANKSGIVING FREEBIE.

• I had a bit of a scare earlier this year when I experienced a vitreous gel separation in my right eye. But thankfully, it didn't tear my retina. I am thankful for sight.
• I had a book published in October all because my sister suggested that we write a story together for Kindle Vella. I am thankful for my sisters. 
• I am thankful for my nieces and nephews who go to movies with me, include me in their birding excursions, and who like to hang out and play board games with me. Being an aunt is a true blessing in my life.
• I am thankful for parents who taught me not only to read, but to love books.
• I am thankful that I have a home that has heat in the winter, AC in the summer and indoor plumbing; a car that gets me to work everyday; a job that I like; enough food to eat; and access to medicine. They are blessings I do not take for granted. 
• I am also very thankful that I live in a country that guarantees me certain inalienable rights, freedoms, liberty, and opportunities. 
• Most of all, I am thankful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, and the mercy, hope, love and grace He brings into my life. 

I am truly blessed!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

May your day be filled with family, friends, good food, love and laughter.

And may you find many things in your life to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Giving Thanks...

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

--William Shakespeare

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

--William Arthur Ward  

"O give thanks unto the Lord;for he is good: 

for his mercy endureth forever."

Psalms 136:1

"At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into an endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged."

--Patch Adams     

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.

--Thomas S. Monson

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns;

   I am grateful that thorns have roses."

                                               --Alphonse Karr

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.

Have you used one to say "Thank You?"

--William A. Ward

Giving thanks...

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."                                        --A.A. Milne 

What would your favorite fictional character give thanks for this Thanksgiving? Ever wondered? Winnie the Pooh would be thankful for a simple jar of honey. For Bilbo Baggins it would have to be second breakfasts and elevenses. I'm sure Elizabeth Bennett (and Mr. Darcy, too) would give thanks for second chances. And I think Harry Potter would give thanks for friends that feel more like family. I tried to imagine what Katniss Everdeen would be grateful for, but I honestly couldn't come up with a single thing. As for me? I am grateful for simple things like friends and family; bubble baths, snow plows, and Maui beaches; chocolate, Sunday morning comics, the cancer treatments that saved my sister's life, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; libraries, books to read, and at least 1,000 other things.

Here's to counting our blessings this year...I hope you have a very

Happy Thanksgiving!