Showing Gratitude Even For the Small Things

As I was formulating this week’s Thankful Thursday post on Showing Gratitude Even For the Small Things I received an email notice from one of my own personal favorite websites to visit. I’ve mentioned this site before in a previous post and even have it listed on my blog roll to your right.

Christy Jordan’s Southern Plate is one of my favorite “foodie” sites to visit. However I don’t just go to this site for the recipes that she is so willing to share; although I love these recipes and prepare many of them for my own family. I like this site so much because Christy tells great stories too. Her down-home, true to life writing style inspires me. She is just as honest as can be and as we say in the South, “as country as cornbread”. That is a compliment by the way in case y’all are wondering. I was even privileged enough to have met her once when she spoke at a local college here just a month or so ago. What a wonderful lady she is!

You can tell that very post she makes comes straight from the heart. I admire that quality and even strive for it here. I hope you all can see that when you are reading my posts. Christy reaches out and touches her audience giving them a warm feeling, a smile on their face and even an occasional tear in their eyes as they leave her site. I am very grateful for having found her site and for the inspiration she gives me when working on my own site. Thanks Christy!

Now I’m not telling you about Southern Plate because I want you to “jump ship” and head right over there right now. Although I do recommend that you check it out for yourself; I don’t think you will be disappointed. The reason I mentioned Christy and her site is as the old saying goes, “great minds think alike” which leads me into reason for starting today’s Thankful Thursday post in the first place.

In her post this week Christy talked about why interruptions are the key to success. I had already been thinking about this very subject and Christy help me pull my thoughts together and think about how grateful I am for the small things in life and the “interruptions”.

We all live very busy and hectic lives these days but it is so very important to remember that we should be grateful for all things that happen around us. Take for instance a phone call right in the middle of some project or other you might happen to be working on. Now you might not exactly feel grateful at the moment when that happens but what if you never got any calls? Think about how lonely that would feel.

I am thankful that my love ones call me because I know that means they care enough to find out what I am doing, need advice or an ear just to listen to them, have exciting news to tell and they want to relate this all to me. I actually feel very privileged knowing that they want to share with me the events in their lives. I probably don’t reach out enough myself to those I love and care about and I plan on remedying that as part of my goals for showing more gratitude this year.