Day 44: A house/shelter

Lest I sound trite I'm going to have to start acknowledging the "givens" for Gratitude Attitudes. Some days I just get "stuck", usually it's on those days that nothing has really happened good or bad, nothing has really stuck out, it's just been a ho-hum kind of day that passed by. But even with the "givens" shouldn't I be grateful? To take for granted the "givens" means, in my opinion, that I have ceased to be grateful for even those. A grateful heart, a gratitude attitude life, is grateful for all things, even or maybe especially the "givens".

So with that said... :)

Today I am grateful for shelter, a house to call a home. After traveling to my beloved Kenya and seeing other places in this world (even in my own city) where the kind of shelter I have is a luxury, I am not unaware of how blessed I am and I try to stay mindful of not taking the house we have for granted. We have a roof that doesn't leak, walls that stand strong against the winds and weather, windows to keep the moisture out, a furnace that gives us heat in the winter and cool air in the summer, we even have a whole "house" for our two cars! Whenever I am tempted to complain about something with our house all I need to do is remember the homeless person's sleeping bag I passed when I drove under the bridge on my way home or remember the people I have seen sleeping on the side of the road in the countries I have visited. So at the risk of sounding trite I am grateful today for our shelter.

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