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Nearing the end of an extended season of study and learning, I’m conscious of the ending of the current season. Of new beginnings in new areas of work.
I’m noticing what has changed and what still remains in work, life, and in parallel, in family life as our young adult children spread their wings and embrace their own new beginnings. Small changes, big changes.
Change can be unsettling. Uncomfortable. Sometimes creating anxiety and sometimes creating excitement. And sometimes just a new quiet and feeling of space. But this week as I was pressing into the feelings of all of the changes, big and small, I was reminded of all that I still have, and all that I have to be grateful for.
Gratitude. It’s something we hear people talk about, we may sometimes refer to, often in quick passing. So I asked myself…
“What am I grateful for today?”
I begin writing a mental list in my head as I was driving to a client meeting. It started slowly, and then became long, different categories emerged. My work, recalling clients I’ve had the privilege of working with, clients I’m still privileged to be working with. Clients and colleagues that have allowed me to try out new learnings with them. Learnings, teachers, newly found peers, new areas of discovery and interest, the joy and the privilege in my work. Family. What has been, and what is, now. Grateful for the times together, the years of memories and the time that is now, together in a different way. Another long list. Grateful to be a wife, mother, sister, daughter. And grateful to be loved and to love.
Grateful for you and for the gift it is to be heard by you, for your support, and to have opportunities to encourage you and support your reflection.
Many lists. Much to be grateful for. So much gratitude. And grateful for new seasons of life and new opportunities to love and to learn and to grow and to support.
Gratitude re-frames my view.
It will come as no surprise to you what I am about to ask you. Perhaps you have already begun to think about who and what you are grateful for, and why?
Take a few minutes to consider the following reflection questions.
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