(For Friday August 8) Some of you may be thinking that I am grateful for myself.  HA! I'm grateful for people who have the heart to counsel others through hard stuff. I'm thankful for people who can help hurt, angry, sad, confused people without a bias.  We all need a perspective that challenges us to approach what we struggle with in a different way and counselors can help us do that. Many times counselors can get us to hear something that others have been trying to tell us.  Yes, I counsel people (I'm what you call a lay counselor since I have no formal training) but I also don't hesitate to see a counselor for myself or send my family to one when it seems to be needed.  Right now two of us in the family are in counseling and it is good.  Today I picked up the other Peninger currently in counseling and I felt so grateful as we drove and I heard a bit of what had happened in the session.  So grateful for counselors to help us get through the valleys of l...

Today I am super grateful for the wisdom that people have that they share and don't keep to themselves. Much as we want to think we are all that and more...we aren't.  And if we are open to it we can benefit greatly from other people's life experiences that can speak into our own.  Whether it is through seeing a counselor or reading a book or hearing a person I respect speak, or doing all of those, the wisdom that others generously share with me I am so grateful for.  I want to grow in wisdom myself and when I allow myself to be open to seeing the truth about myself so that I can grow and change and mature in life and wisdom then I'm guessing y'all will be grateful! (Kind of like the "whew, finally she's better" kind of grateful - ha!)