Connections-in-Goodness

Today I am grateful for laughter shared with my husband Darcy. I am also grateful for the gift of recovery today. It is a gift available to me if I take simple actions and seek help beyond myself.

I am thinking especially today of two people who died in recent days because of their addictions. Thoughts and prayers to their families and friends.

Like recovery fuels me each day I seek it, this quote fueled me yesterday:

"Recipients of our appreciation are apt to express their own gratitude to others, lengthening the unending, golden chain of connections-in-goodness that stretches across the world." 

(Mary Ford-Grabowsky)

Beautiful and true words. Gratitude shared is gratitude multiplied. I carried this with me yesterday and noticed a few things.

*I had dropped some earrings the other day and thought I had retrieved them all. But the pair I wanted to wear was missing one. I looked again in the area, and then saw it, caught on a part of our bed frame. Quickly found. The words "Seek and you shall find" came to mind. That is true of gratitude as well as faith in a power beyond ourselves.

*The simple nature of a smile and a hello cannot be underestimated. I sometimes started it, as I often do as I am moving through the halls at the school I work at. But others started it as well, and most reciprocated. Smiles are indeed contagious.

*I was touched, and fully appreciated, the show of compassion I saw among my co-workers as they worked to support our student population.

*Though I have heard her say it many times, I especially heard my co-worker Becky say what she always says to her students as they depart: "Make good choices, do good things." 

That's a good plan for today. Thanks Becky and many others for adding to the golden chain of connections-in-goodness.