Gratitude...

I decided that the subject for my very first post on my blog should be "Gratitude".  I have found that I have so much to be thankful for and that I experience miracles in my everyday life when I stay in a place of thankfulness.  I have such a wonderful husband and such talented and special children.  I have great friends and family and a church that feeds my spirit.  But also...

I am always so blessed to share a wedding day with a couple.  I think it is so amazing to look into the faces of love and hope and share in a part of the most important even in their lives.  

Brother David Steindl-Rast said, "Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy--because we will always want to have something more."  

This is a quality that I have been trying to instill in my children... "be thankful."

To All My Brides and Grooms, I would just say to you... that sometimes things don't go exactly how they are planned, but if you focus on that, you won't be free to notice all the beauty that is there.  You have found a great love, and that alone is such a blessing and a gift.  Stay in a place of gratitude and you will experience joys, large and small... and miracles, large and small every single day.