[Charlene]

Grateful…. Me??? Am I? I don’t know. I would like to think that I am. I would hope that my actions in life display measures of gratefulness. I desire to show kindness, compassion, generosity and gentleness towards others as they come across my path, I endeavor to do just that. I believe I am a grateful person. As we all face a world full of such ugliness, wars, murder, hatred, hunger and the like; yet beauty remains to strengthen us, I am grateful.

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Grateful… Me??? As my heart searches for an absolute regarding this it tells me that being grateful must begin by showing kindness, compassion, generosity and gentleness to me. To care for myself, to stand sober, strong as steel and to forgive myself for past mistakes, to know that when I stumble, tumble and fall I can pick myself up with gentleness and let the spirit of gratefulness rest on me.

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Grateful… Me??? My heart has only just begun to learn what grateful is for I am only know learning to be grateful for me……..