To celebrate Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to do something different. Instead of a blog post to tell you how to be grateful (though I have written one before), I wrote a poem to share my experience of gratitude lately. After you read it, why not give it a try and write your own Gratitude Poem? No one has to read it except you. 🙂
Gratitude Poem
In the echoes of my soul,
I feel a longing for more.
Always more and more,
Never less and less.
The longing is a gnawing
an ache
a raw and empty hunger.
Never satisfied, never full.
Until I reach the frenzied point where my heart cries
This is enough.
You have enough.
You are enough.
And I remember to pause
and breathe
and looking to all the gifts I’ve been given–
my family,
my faith,
my friends,
my dog,
my go-get-em spirit,
my wits,
my humor,
my grandma’s thin hair,
my dad’s broad shoulders,
my tender heart–
I whisper a prayer:
May gratitude become a way of life for me,
not only an afterthought to overwhelm.
Amen.
