Grace & Gratitude

I just looked up synonyms for gratitude and grace appeared. It wouldn't have occurred to me but it fits I suppose.

A blizzard is raging outside... a "Nor'easter" apparently. From my perspective it looks so harmless, at least at this early morning hour. I've made arrangements and taken precautions... everyone is home today... everything was cancelled last evening based on the TV screen real estate consumed by closure notices. The Jeep, Beauty in Blue, is parked facing the street so I can smash merrily through the snow drift at the end of driveway - head first! Only a couple inches of the predicted 24 has fallen so far. I'll need to wait a while to let the snow drift at the street develop properly before I head out... =)  I digress

I'm cozy... somehow cozier due to the weather. Sitting on my favorite stool at the beautiful stone kitchen island and sipping a bit of Starbucks Christmas blend coffee that carefully hoarded. NPR's morning edition is done and I've switched to a nice Pandora shuffle... the song playing? "Blessed" by Brett Dennen. (NO SHIT folks!!) "Blessed is this life. I'm going to celebrate being a live." I totally love it when this sort of thing happens! NO KIDDING... so I know I'm on the right track/tact/path when the "random" things support me. Anyway... I digress AGAIN!

Grace... beauty - decency - dignity - ease - balance - consideration - tact - poise - agility 

Maybe that will be my right wrist tattoo... what a beautiful, wonderful, magical word! Guess what's playing now? "By The Grace of the Sea" Dan Gibson... NICE!

I'm free. I'm healthy. I'm aware. I'm loved unconditionally. I have resources and abundance of all sorts. My cup runneth over! I am living in gratitude but occasionally it swoops in and requires additional acknowledgement. Some mornings it actually brings me to tears. Perhaps there's a poem? Let's listen and see... 

GRACE
The context shifts
The background noise mutates
Something breezy
Floats by in the corner
Of your eye

No rush to identify
Only peacefully gaze
Forward looking

Ice picks and needles
fire and ice
something punctures
heats and cools

pathways appear
where none were
possible

Just as I dreamed
there's magic
hidden lightly
lying only there...

the cover slips
shimmering
transparent

Always there
unseen travelling
behind - beside
above - below

Welcome!
And THANK YOU!

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