Today I’m thankful for the birds
Who…as to the tree limbs they cling…
know we must be part of the silence
If we want to hear them sing.
Today I’m thankful for friends…
A friend is someone who
(I’m sure you’ve heard this before)
makes us laugh a little harder
cry a little less
and smile a little more.
Today I’m thankful for all those who read to children…
It’s one of the best things, for them, we can do….
I’m thankful for the parents…
for the teachers who read…
and for the grandparents, like me, too.
Today I’m thankful for compassion:
The ability to see everyone as sisters and brothers….
to look beyond whatever pain we may be feeling at any moment…
and see the pain of others
Today I’m thankful for sports
for showing us how to have fun and play..
and teaching us always try and do a little better
than we did yesterday
Today I’m thankful for magic…for children…
and for the wonderfully innocent view of the world they bring…
Because…
when we are fortunate enough to see the world through the eyes of a child
we’re be able to see magic…in everything
Today once again I’m thankful for flowers
and the diversity they show….
because if every flower was a red rose…
think of all the beauty we’d never know
Today I’m thankful for swings
for those feelings of freedom and flying that it brings…
I think Duke Ellington understood
the wonders that they bring…
when he sang…
Life don’t mean a thing…
if it ain’t got that swing
Today I’m thankful for the ability to be thankful
and the way thankfulness breeds thankfulness more and more…
because the more you practice being thankful….
you find
the more you have to be thankful for.