Posts Tagged ‘Gratitude’

This week I celebrated my wife’s birthday along with other members of our family.

It was fun. It was crazy. It was loud and it was joyous. There was plenty of good food, good gifts, good company, and good conversation had by all. It was a day that we could take just a moment to celebrate and honour a magnificent life, to take out time to pause and say ‘thank you’, to say ‘I love you’, and to affirm how much we all appreciated her contribution to our lives for yet another year. Her life has made a significant difference to each of us, and for that we are truly thankful.

The dissertation was represented in words, phone calls, in text messages, in postings on the Internet, in cards, in emails, and in the many hugs and kisses that flowed. This celebration moved to a higher level as a direct result of these words that were expressed.

But let’s not stop at just one day each year to celebrate. With the birth of each new day we need to learn the art of celebration by using words that frame our day in a celebratory manner.

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His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make  a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.  He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

‘I want to repay you,’ said the nobleman. ‘You saved my son’s life.’

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