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January 02, 2009
A blog virgin counts her blessings for 2008/9
Simon invited me on to this blog a couple of months ago and I said no being a blog virgin - certainly I have never contributed to one but shame to say I don't read them much. This is partly because I could lose days at a time once I get started. But also I try and fail to get the terms of engagement with blogs. I suspect they're all different - anyway, I have decided to give it a go and I can say with complete certainty that I will try and fail here too but Happy New blogging Year anyway.
And so to begin, the New Year has already been interesting. On New year's eve someone asked me what the highlights of 2008 were, one came for me instantly without having to think. However, the next day they kept coming to my mind, thick and fast. 2008 was a steady year for me - no big changes, no significant losses, and now that I thnk of it many blessings.
There was a time when being told to count our blessings I would consider a punchable offence so I'm certainly not going to tell anyone else to do it but some years back after a couple of very unsteady years full of loss and lostness, counting my blessings was one of my ways through. I made it my practise to count 3 before I went to sleep. It taught me the lovely gift of gratitude - a good gift for one who is prone to looking on the bleak side.
So, the first entry in my journal for this year is a list of gratitudes for things in 2008. One of the last ones is "Survived Christmas and it really was OK" - not my favourite festival but I made it to 2009 with a bundle of blessings (and those are only the ones I can remember) and I'm grateful for it.
Posted by Tess at January 2, 2009 03:44 PM