Sometimes, gratitude overwhelms me.
During six months of cancer/chemo, my church family surrounded me with prayers and hands-on care in the form of food, flowers, cards, visits, cleaning house, taking our 7th grade daughter clothes shopping, and driving our son to piano lessons.
Last summer, our daughter’s wedding was 3000 miles away from where we now live. Precious friends graciously did pre-wedding reconnaissance, much of the weekend labor, loaned us decorations and equipment and opened their homes to the wedding party.
This month I am amazed at the outpouring of support and encouragement for Slender Reeds. You have gathered friends to celebrate with me, shared posts, written reviews, placed book info in your businesses, contacted your church communities, and even bought/read/reviewed the book!
For each of these circumstances, I can say a sincere ‘thank you’ until I’m blue in the face. But gratitude needs to go deeper than appreciation. When it inspires us to reciprocate or ‘pay forward’ or do a random act of kindness – is that not a deeper, truer gratitude?
