The Grateful Thread

Today I am grateful for yoga... it helps me find the peace I cannot find elsewhere.

Just wanted to say, I love you guys - and I'm here if any of you need someone.

I'm grateful for hot showers.

I'm also grateful for that one employee who picked up my shifts at the desk so I could stay home sick.

I'm grateful for my co-workers who have great senses of humor and made me laugh for a good hour or so.

I'm grateful for big surprises like the one you guys gave me yesterday (Master rank) ...

I'm so grateful for the Temple : for the friendships that have come about over the last three years ...
- for the friends and associates of the Clergy and the Council ;
- for the interesting and informative exchanges with the Members, wherever they are on their 'paths' ;
- for all the Knights ;
- for especially for my Apprentices (as well as for many who aren't mine, but still ...)


Living as a Jedi off-line takes a much more careful balancing act on the razor's edge than what one can write in a few lines of text written at a distance. Nevertheless, the Temple and its company - though not firmly solid of stone and bone and blood - is as wonderful a fortress sanctuary as any that have ever been. And although it stands on electronics and the Light that drives it, it is quite as firm and solid as well.

Thank you, to and for each and all of you !

I'm grateful for leftovers from company dinners plus all the food that they bought for us during training that needs to be eaten soon.

i'm grateful to be alive. i'm grateful to have made it this far, and grateful for the possibility that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning and there will be another opportunity to be a better person than i was the previous day.

and hopefully, i'll be grateful to get some Luck on the 13th. i am thankful for the confidence that i have that i will live to see the sun rise on the 13th and may The Force grant me the Luck i'd like to have.

My space heater in my room is like a best friend. The room isn't very big so it heats up nice and toasty in just a couple minutes and stays that way with the door shut. Thank you, Mr Spaceheater! :side:

I am grateful for my husband. I don't know what I would do without his help in raising our baby.

I am also grateful for my space heater I work in an old building where the heat doesn't reach us. It doesn't heat the room but at least I have my little bubble of warmth.

I'm grateful for the sauna at the base gym. It's half the reason I start working out is getting to sit in there afterwards

And I am grateful to Alton Brown for the inspiration to start cooking and baking good eats!

I am grateful that people understand my crazieness...
Here's to all the crazy ones
Thank you

This is probably one of the weirdest forum posts I've made. :huh:

Since about 10 o'clock this morning, I've been in a pretty bizarre space. It has been one of those days where "absolutely nothing in Life is good, EVERY BLOODY THING needs to be different, I don't have the time to do anything, I'm nothing, I'm a f*cking idiot who pretends to have some measure of cleverness, I don't have anyone to talk to and I can't even frakkin' cook ! My Life is just miserable and no one gives a shit ... !"


One of those kinds of days, you know ... :S

Well, as it were :

• It's the first day of my winter holiday (I have a week off) ... how the hell is that not having time for stuff ?
• I finished a delightful and helpful book today and began another ...
• I go to the gym, come home to a nice wok-ful of rice & chicken with ginger that I made and is quite tasty ...
• Tomorrow morning, I'm going to have coffee with a friend of mine who I don't get to see often, but we have a pretty human and whole-hearted conversation each time we can ...
• Saturday, I spent the afternoon and into the early evening with other friends who I don't get to see often but each time we do it is pretty human and whole-hearted too ... And that was after spending the morning interviewing with two journalists from France Info ...

Now, like I said, it was since about 10 o'clock this morning that I got on that silly My Life Sucks roundabout ; I realised that today I've lounged around at home and seen no one. Essentially, no one ruined my day but me.

The reason why I'm putting this here, in the Grateful Thread, is because when I realised that ... I just had one of the biggest, tears streaming down my cheeks LAUGHS that I've had yet so far this year ... How ridiculous is that ? To essentially spend all day in a snit because things are essentially going just fine ...

I am so grateful that I am not the only one who has those days..
And grateful that my friends understand that crazy gotta laugh and flap your wings moments...Days and gently remind me

today i formally accepted a new job in another city. close enough to commute for the time being. i am grateful for the opportunity and hope i dont screw it up.

My sister checked herself into rehab, its been about a month now with her daughter in my custody. The last mont has been filled with court dates and officials entering my home, putting me under a magnifying glass to determine if I am worthy and not a detriment to her well being. Its been hell...

I realized the other day my niece literally has no comprehension of the magnitude Star Wars and Star Trek has had on modern culture. I finally have the chance I have always wanted, to raise her right. She's been surrounded by drug addicts her whole life, and has a year or so of her child hood left. I am grateful to have a bit of that time, in attempts (vain as they may be) to undo what has been done...

I am grateful for today or perhaps more to the point I am grateful that, thanks to the temple, I finally get that all I have is now. The peace that brings me is perhaps the first I have ever know and for that I am not able to language my appreciation.

Yesterday, one of the people I serve choked on his lunch. Eventually, his heart stopped. I had the privilege of maintaining a perimeter while our nursing staff successfully performed CPR, got his heart going again, and suctioned the sandwich from his lungs.

Scary stuff, but inspiring.

suctioned the sandwich from his lungs.

did anyone tell him he's supposed to chew his food not inhale it?

Got a lot of grateful to get off my chest today....

I'm grateful to my parents and grandparents, who do more for me than they should, and more than I deserve, who taught me to work hard but be generous.

I'm grateful to my fiance, who taught me say 'f*** it' and be myself.

I'm grateful to my year ten history teacher, who taught me that one voice can change the world.

I'm grateful for my record player... even though half the disks have been played to death, there's something more soulful in the music from a record than from any mp3 or cd.

I am grateful for the sermons that many times say just what you need and grateful for the people who put in some much to the Temple. Not all of it seen.
Thanks

Today I am grateful for all of my animals: Dog, 3 cats, parakeet and the bunny.
Having to stop taking in rescue rats and degu because of my allergy was a killer, but the silly personalities of my remaining animals makes my day every day.