Post #700: Still Writing
Today I am grateful for humidity (but you won't hear me say that again this season) and I am grateful to be a writer and have this blog as a regular place to deposit my thoughts and words.
I have been depositing thoughts and words about gratitude here for over two years and today marks my 700th post. I am nothing if not persistent. I am also humbled. Quite humbled by what this blogging experience has taught me about writing, about the value of gratitude practice, and about myself.
In ways, I compose this 700th post in similar fashion to my first post. That first one, this one, and all the others in between speak to the effectiveness of applying a grateful approach to each day. I believed in the practice of gratitude long before I started this blog. But this blog has intensified the power of the practice, has helped me reach a deeper level of acceptance and calm with life as it unfolds. I handle life better on a daily basis today than I did two years ago.
The realization has sunk in that this is a source of energy, grace, wisdom, and humility that will never be tapped out. As long as I use gratefulness to pursue-in Brother David Steindl-Rast's words- "the great fullness of life," I will keep learning about myself and the world I live in. It may be cliche, but this truly is about the journey, not the destination. God willing, I will never arrive at the place where I think I can stop practicing gratitude. Just like I hope I never arrive at the place where I think I can stop doing the daily work needed to address my daily disease of alcoholism.
So I also compose this 700th post in different fashion from the first 100, 200, 300, or 400 posts. I don't pay as much attention to page views, number of comments or followers. I'm still writing, simply said, because I am a writer. What floors me the most about this blogging experience, something I could not have foreseen but sure makes sense in hindsight, is how very good I feel as a writer when I blog daily or almost daily. I am honoring the writing and the writer within. I am not waiting until I have time to write. I am making time to write. The action of writing about gratitude has given more power to the gratitude itself. Humbled. Graced.
Still writing. What a gift writing has been to me. Speaking of Still Writing, that is also the name of Dani Shapiro's latest book. I loved it and will share more tomorrow. Thanks and have a good day!
I have been depositing thoughts and words about gratitude here for over two years and today marks my 700th post. I am nothing if not persistent. I am also humbled. Quite humbled by what this blogging experience has taught me about writing, about the value of gratitude practice, and about myself.
In ways, I compose this 700th post in similar fashion to my first post. That first one, this one, and all the others in between speak to the effectiveness of applying a grateful approach to each day. I believed in the practice of gratitude long before I started this blog. But this blog has intensified the power of the practice, has helped me reach a deeper level of acceptance and calm with life as it unfolds. I handle life better on a daily basis today than I did two years ago.
The realization has sunk in that this is a source of energy, grace, wisdom, and humility that will never be tapped out. As long as I use gratefulness to pursue-in Brother David Steindl-Rast's words- "the great fullness of life," I will keep learning about myself and the world I live in. It may be cliche, but this truly is about the journey, not the destination. God willing, I will never arrive at the place where I think I can stop practicing gratitude. Just like I hope I never arrive at the place where I think I can stop doing the daily work needed to address my daily disease of alcoholism.
So I also compose this 700th post in different fashion from the first 100, 200, 300, or 400 posts. I don't pay as much attention to page views, number of comments or followers. I'm still writing, simply said, because I am a writer. What floors me the most about this blogging experience, something I could not have foreseen but sure makes sense in hindsight, is how very good I feel as a writer when I blog daily or almost daily. I am honoring the writing and the writer within. I am not waiting until I have time to write. I am making time to write. The action of writing about gratitude has given more power to the gratitude itself. Humbled. Graced.
Still writing. What a gift writing has been to me. Speaking of Still Writing, that is also the name of Dani Shapiro's latest book. I loved it and will share more tomorrow. Thanks and have a good day!
Congratulations Lisa. Your posts are part of my morning gratitude routine. You do instil the great fullness of life in others through your writing. Everything you do makes a difference... a realization that came to me through the practice of gratitude.
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve! Routine and habitual may not sound like fun . . . but they sure do work don't they? The fun and enjoyment comes when we see the gifts we are surrounded by. I look forward to your monthly musings videos as well.
DeleteKeep on keeping on!