So looking back at this week, through the prism of the Sleeping with Bread meme, I ask myself and ask you to ask yourself:
For what am I/are you most grateful this past week?
For what am I/are you least grateful this past week?
For what am I most grateful this past week?
1. Body: Continuing with giving up candy bars for Lenten, even after being sorely tempted (yea, sorely tempted) by peanut butter eggs at counters at stores. I love peanut butter and chocolate.
2. Mind: Starting to read Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and finishing Smoke: The Disappearing Novel by Donald E. Westlake and Tears of The Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, the second in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
3. Soul: Putting in an application to be a volunteer at our local senior center. I had seen an item in our church bulletin requesting volunteers for several months, but thought that it had been kept in by mistake. Finally, this past week, I called and filled out an application yesterday. Mostly, it involves helping out with lunches at the center a few days a week.
For what am I least grateful this past week?
1. Body: Still struggling with getting up earlier each morning so I have more time to run/walk, but on the positive side, I have stopped playing a few Facebook games that keep me up at night. So that ought to see fruit here in the near future.
2. Mind: Still struggling with selecting assignments at a freelance writing site. Perhaps it’s that the site gives you topics on which to write, which seems to limit my creativity. I like to think that’s what it is. It’s also that the site pays a minimal amount for most articles and I don’t know if I can sell myself that cheap. On the flip side, I’m earning nothing extra otherwise and we need the extra income from what little I make as a newspaper correspondent and a library worker. Perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere, but where?
3. Soul: Missing a couple of days of praying the Liturgy of the Hours, especially Morning and especially during this Holy Week.
So for what are you most grateful and least grateful this week?
This is how I felt after this past week:
But this is what I will continue to do:
Maybe it’s only appropriate with it being Holy Week.
I am most grateful for my new “used” car. However, I am least grateful for all the car’s quirks I have discovered.
Happy Easter!
Least grateful: Not getting enough sleep.
Most grateful: Getting to sleep in for two days.
Indifferent: Nothing, actually. Everything seems interesting in one way or another right now.
Well, it looks like the sleep thing evened out anyway.
I’ve eaten enough peanut butter eggs for you, you’ll thank me later. I’m impressed with everything you are doing and in awe of the things you are able to give up. I feel like a very unworthy person right now.
Next week, well, now later this week by the time I’m responding, I’ll have taken back all those things I’ve given up. As for being an unworthy person, from what I’ve read in your blog, with all you do, you are definitely not unworthy. Just the Tribal Blogs community alone makes you worthy in my book
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