My 22 day Miracles and Gratitude Challenge stalled around Day 19. It’s not that I haven’t seen any miracles or that I gave up being grateful. It just became more of an inner noticing.
Grief rears up sometimes when we’re trying our hardest to close the door and push it away. Bingo. My logic in doing this challenge?
Count miracles + be grateful =
Well, I don’t know what it equals. I just know I didn’t make it 22 days in a row of posting. Sometimes it seems like our best intentions don’t always add up or go as planned. So, I’m starting on whatever day it is. This day.
Gratitude:
- pumpkin patch
- my son
- sunflowers
Miracle photos:
We just left the pumpkin patch. We had a great time playing games, miniature golfing, seeing animals, hayride, slides, basketball hoops, and getting pumpkins. I even got to go into a sea of sunflowers. Love flowers so much!
Thanks for reading. I appreciate it.
Jessica
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Love the stone turtle, sunflower shots and the busy bee – all are good examples of Fall which I miss already even though we are slated for 74 degrees on Saturday for the 5th of November … almost unheard of in SE Michigan.
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Oh, you’re in SE Michigan? Cool. Thank you, I thought that turtle looked sweet. That bee just stayed put!! Didn’t even flinch when I put the camera near it! The sunflowers were pretty neat because they were all at different growing stages. Wow! 74 sounds wonderful. We’ve had 70’s this week. Love it!
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Yes, the weather has been a real treat this Fall Jessica. I love sunflowers and I like how you caught them in different growing stages, from bright and smiling to over and drooping with heads bent.
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Thanks so much!
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Most days we are grateful but some days it is hard to put that gratitude into words. Love the photos and the gratitude moments.
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Oh my gosh!! Faye!!! How sweet to see your name! ❤️❤️❤️ Yes, that, exactly. Thank you- we had a nice time there. They have a Christmas even there, too. Hopefully we can go to it as well. Thank you, love my boy. Hope you’re doing well. Hugs!
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We are doing well over here…just trying to get back into catching up over here.
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From harvest?
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catching up on reading blogs. Our harvest was actually done very early due to the very dry summer that we had. I have been trying to get rooms painted in our house as it has been many years since they were updated and you could tell!
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Oh wow, you were done early? It has been so dry!!! Oops- reading blogs, yes, I need to do that, too. I know what you mean about rooms! Eeks. I need to paint ours. Zero motivation. Bravo to you!!
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well I am kind of on a roll with painting and I figure I better keep going before I run out of steam.
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That’s awesome! Bet it looks so nice.
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I don’t think we can force ourselves to feel grateful when it doesn’t come naturally. And that’s okay…as you demonstrated, gratitude always comes back!
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Hi!! That’s a good point. Some days gratitude can be there, but it doesn’t need to be/have to be announced. Or, like you said about force, that would yank the authentic right out of it. Love what you said about gratitude coming back. That’s a good lesson for me, thank you,
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Sunflowers is a good place to start (again) … oh, and your son of course 😉.
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Hi. Thank you so very much. He’s a sweetheart and flowers are divine! Hope you have a wonderful day! 🌻
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Beautiful sunflowers. I remember starting a “gratitude journal” years ago but stalled as you said after about a week. I certainly had moments to be grateful for, but the actual exercise of writing it down became trivial and trite it seemed. I was aware at the end of the day the things I knew were important, to be thankful for and now I find when something happens, as simple as the sun being out and the sky being blue or a call from a friend, I acknowledge to myself “thank you for that” As the person above wrote, it is taking notice of the things that happen. <3
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Hi Lisa, oh I love that sooooooo much. The acknowledging with a “thank you for that.” Maybe I’ll try that. I understand what you said about the journaling- I never can stick with gratitude journals very long. Love your word choice, ‘trite.’ Exactly that!
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The sunflowers are beautiful! Who cares about counting the days! The important thing is noticing our blessings in life. That’s what matters, and you are doing that.
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Hi. Good points. Thank you, the field was huge! Flowers forever, it seemed.
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Those sunflowers are impressive.
Don’t beat yourself up. I wasn’t counting your days, but I do enjoy all your posts.
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Thank you- you should’ve seen that field! So many flowers. Oh good- I think I got to 19 and only had/have 3 left maybe. My goal was 22 days.
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