Are You Kidding Me? (a.k.a. Acceptance)
Today I am grateful for my friend Betsy and her testament to the effectiveness of gratitude practice as a positive perception builder. I am grateful for the beauty of the snow on the trees.
Here is what it looked like out our front door last evening at about 7:00:
And the snow was just starting to accumulate. I don't recall a snowier or colder April in my years on the planet. It does bring to mind that phrase heard often lately around here-"Are you kidding me?"No. It's real snow. And it's real old. But what can you do? Accept it. Appreciate that it is delaying the arrival of Minnesota's state bird-the mosquito.
Acceptance. Required daily. Large doses and small. Apply acceptance to the weather and pretty much everything else. Unless it's those two things you and I each have control over in our individual realms--our own attitude and actions.
I'll take an attitude of gratitude and actions that support that attitude.
The snow? We got several inches. I appreciate that I am able to shovel our driveway clear. It will melt and be nothing but a memory in a few days. And in a few weeks we'll be complaining about how warm it is.
Keep it in perspective.
Here is what it looked like out our front door last evening at about 7:00:
And the snow was just starting to accumulate. I don't recall a snowier or colder April in my years on the planet. It does bring to mind that phrase heard often lately around here-"Are you kidding me?"No. It's real snow. And it's real old. But what can you do? Accept it. Appreciate that it is delaying the arrival of Minnesota's state bird-the mosquito.
Acceptance. Required daily. Large doses and small. Apply acceptance to the weather and pretty much everything else. Unless it's those two things you and I each have control over in our individual realms--our own attitude and actions.
I'll take an attitude of gratitude and actions that support that attitude.
The snow? We got several inches. I appreciate that I am able to shovel our driveway clear. It will melt and be nothing but a memory in a few days. And in a few weeks we'll be complaining about how warm it is.
Keep it in perspective.
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