Gratitude for the less obvious

With another Thanksgiving literally right around the corner, instead of just focusing on the obvious things I'm thankful for (family, friends, health, etc.), I thought I'd also share the not so obvious things I'm thankful for and intentionally blog about them on an ongoing basis. So here it goes....

I'm thankful for time. Stop and think about it... we're so busy, so rushed through our days, we rarely stop to give thanks for the gift of time. It's a commodity that is very precious, and we just don't know how much we have of it, but in this life, we have the opportunity to make every moment count. So what are you doing with your time today? tonight? Pick something good. Celebrate. Tell someone that you love them. And take time, time to do good, time to love, and time to give thanks.

I'm also thankful for the gift of sight. How many of us take sight for granted? The ability to open your eyes and see the AZ sunsets, a bird in flight, the smile of a friend. What a great gift it is to see. To be able to read, to watch a movie, to see your kids. To see the stars at night, take in all the sights in the day, and a thousand other things! Then there's the the other side of sight, insight which I'm also grateful for. To be able to look at myself and various life situations and see them for what they truly are. To be able to look inside and take an honest, fearless moral inventory of who I am. The possibility of a better future for us begins when we look at ourselves and are honest enough to see ourselves as we are. So what do you see today? What do you see in yourself?