31 Days of Gratitude: Family

We can bring out the best

and we can bring out the worst

in each other. 

Sometimes all within the same day.

Family.

It is our first and forever laboratory for learning:

about yourself,

about another human being,

about relationships and dynamics.

Whether you find love and support and encouragement...

Whether you find pain and anger and dysfunction...

Whether you find humor and grace and forgiveness... 

You will find yourself meeting the human condition,

Face to face. Intimately.

And your task, should you accept it,

Is to seek the deepest authentic expression of yourself
And to listen and look for the same in the other,

as our lives unfold in this time and space

that we share.

...

I am grateful for Family, both by birth and those who are chosen members.

I am thankful for the love, and also for the full range of human emotions that I have experienced, in my family.

I grateful for the experiences, the memories, and our unique family saga. 

I am grateful for the opportunity to grow because of these relationships.

How deeply might your life be enriched  

after practicing 31 Days of Gratitude?  

Join me and find out.

{I host a linky party every Wednesday. More info *HERE.*  I'm sharing Gratitude for Family with these fine folks, whose links open on ~ Sunday:  Sew Darned Crafty, I Should Be Mopping The Floor, Making Monday Marvelous, Brassy Apple, Craftomaniac, Alderberry Hill, Under the Table & Dreaming, Making the World Cuter ; Monday: Skip to my Lou, Cherished Bliss, Sugar Bee Crafts, Tip Junkie's Tip Me Tuesday; Tuesday: Not Just a Housewife, Carolyn's Homework, Elizabeth & Co., The DIY Dreamer,  Savvy Southern Style, What we Wore & Made, Uncommon, Gingersnap Crafts, The NY Melrose Family, Today's Creative Blog ; Wednesday: I Gotta Create! ,  All Star Block Party, The 36th Avenue, Live-Laugh-Rowe, Handy Man Crafty Woman, The Trendy Treehouse ; Thursday: Scissors & Spatulas, My Repurposed Life, Frugal Girls, Shabby Nest,  Romantic Home, French County Cottage, Stuff & Nonsense ; Friday: Funky Junk Interiors, Happy Hour, Anything Goes, Finding Fabulous, My Simple Home Life, Tatertots & Jello, Thirty Handmade Days, One Creative Mommy ; Saturday: Be Different Act Normal, A Bouquet of Talent, Tutus & Tea Parties, Six Sisters Stuff, Sew Country Chick, DIY Showoff, Positively Splendid , Nifty Thrifty Things}