30 days of gratitude

I read this idea in a magazine; it was actually presented as a scrapbooking idea but I have decided to transform it into a blog challege for myself. The "idea" is to chronicle one thing that you are thankful for each day during the month of November. The article promoted the idea of taking a photo a day of something/someone you are thankful for, but I think that might be too ambitious for me. So my goal is just to find one thing each day and record it here. Now, I know I have sooo much more than 30 things to be thankful for, but sometimes I think I get so focused on everything I think is wrong -- with the world, with my job, with my family, with my house, etc etc etc -- that I'm sure there are many days that pass without my actually experiencing any feelings of gratitude of all. Maybe that's why this idea appeals to me. They say it takes 3 weeks to form a new habit. I'm thinking after 30 days of looking for reasons to be grateful, I might have a better outlook on life.

So - here we go. The items are going to be random, not in order of importance or anything like that. My idea is simply to focus on one thing each day.

And today I am grateful for my BSF leaders' group. These are 20-some women who are my sisters in Christ, some of whom I know and love well, others of whom I know only from their interaction in our weekly Saturday morning study. Each of them is a blessing, an encouragement, and a godly example to me. They remind me each week that I am not alone in the struggle to become more like Christ in a world that is farther from Him than ever.