Gratitude

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Happy Thanksgiving

And for those of you who are not celebrating this US holiday have a fun day too.

The story was told to me as true. Sitting in a large room was a number of people and one young man complained about a flat tire he had recently that caused him to be late for important meeting, to which an older man replied, were you grateful for the air in the other three?

Gratitude like most things in life is a matter of perspective and awareness. The choice is always ours.

As I look into my life and really have the perspective and awareness of all I can be grateful for I see that there is not time in the day to list it all.

To start my family, friends, health and business. The people who have taught me, the people who have made be be a better person and that includes people who I did not agree with at the time, people who put up with my ways because I know I can be a jerk. Those of you who give of your life in the service of other such as the men and women in our military, the law enforcement officers, firefighters and the people in health care. I am grateful for this nation of ours and the system of government we have, flawed as it might be that allows me to say what I what in an open forum on my blog. I get to fly these crazy little machines called powered paragliders, and that I get to take my paragliding wing and run off the top of a mountain or cliff and float on air. Statements like “I have a dream” by the late Dr. Martin Luther King because it changed a nation and broke the bonds of the past.

I am grateful I found out for me, life is best lived when I am actively being in service to others. When I take my eyes off my life and put them on the lives of others and how I can help them. How I can bring a smile to the face of others, how I can talk with them through tough days, how I can help them see their greatness.

I am grateful you took the time to read this blog post. With out you there is no me to be expressed.

If I speak out to the world and no one is there to listen how will I be heard?