Part 3 of 3. This will be a TOUGH challenge. I hope you’re up for it. Today can you be grateful for your enemies? I have a very short list, thank goodness, of people who fall into this category. I started to list them here…but if I do (and I did, but I came back …
Gratitude challenge – strangers
By Merry Mary Part 2 of 3 in our series…As Blanche Dubois so elegantly stated in that masterpiece A streetcar named Desire, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”. Have you ever thought as you bounce around like a pinball through life, how many encounters you have with complete strangers? From the grocery clerk to the …
Gratitude challenge – friends
By Merry Mary Part 1 of 3. See if you can guess the next two challenges based on this one! Some people like to categorize their friends: short term or long term friends. Work friends, church friends, vacation friends, neighbor friends. I have one category – friend…because once you’re a friend, you are a friend for life (unless …
Gratitude challenge – VBS
By Merry Mary This week I am volunteering at my church’s Vacation Bible School (VBS),which is how I landed on the subject of this week’s gratitude challenge. This week long fun is 100% volunteer led and, I might add, superbly organized. I’m so grateful for the adult and teenage volunteers giving up part of their day to provide …