simple things

joyful acknowledgement of the simple things enjoyed today - unexpected help and blessings as well as time and laughter with my best friend. no riches or material things can compare to what simple conversation and camaraderie brings. enjoy each and every minute with your beloved. i know i did.

Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
-Goethe-

Bright CHEERS!

once a year, we celebrate the day we arrived in this world - birthdays are occassions to give thankfulness and praise to the Almighty above as well as to share joy and gladness with those closest to our hearts. my birthday has been made extra special by the unexpected blessings and tidings that came. to start each day without expectations, and to begin with humility is how i'd like to wake up in the coming mornings...