23 days of Gratitude - Day 1 :)

I have a friend on Facebook who started posting gratitude posts every day for the 30 days before Thanksgiving.  I love the idea and I love hearing her gush with gratitude so I'm using her idea here....

I am grateful for a bunch of things in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and what it morphed into.

I am so grateful that we were fortunate enough to have only the inconvenience of the no electricity for a few days.  There are so many people who have lost their homes, and some who have lost their lives.  I found this website showing a bunch of ways we can help get everybody the things they need to rebuild their homes and their lives.  I figure every little bit helps.

I'm grateful for the emergency services personnel and the electric company workers and everyone else  that have been working non-stop, even as their own lives have been similarly impacted, to help other people.

I'm grateful that our electricity is back on and that this time, rather than 3 days in the dark, with no water and tons of food spoiled, our generator was working!  We figured out ways to spread around the electricity so that it was hard to tell that the power was out.  And, I'm grateful that the massively tall trees in the lot next to ours chose to fall within the lot, rather than on any houses, cars, etc. :)

I'm impressed and grateful that Halloween went on as planned, even though many of the homes on the kids' route were without power.  Actually, they are more grateful than I am for that one.  I'm grateful that this is finally going to be the year that they decide NOT to consume all of their candy within days of collecting it..... what you think is what will be :)

Sending love and light to everyone as they work through the details of letting this intense experience show it's blessings.

Namaste