Grace in Small Things

My friend, Joanna, started doing blogs based around Grace in Small Things ... which in turn came from another friend and now she has passed it on to several other friends and I thought it's my turn. Grace in Small Things "exists because we are choosing not to allow the noisiness of life to rob us of the time and energy to be mindful of ourselves and those we love and to recognize the grace that exists in small things....it is a challenge for every day, because there's no time like the present, tomorrow, never comes, and some other cliche about seizing the day. Oh right: carpe diem" (http://graceinsmallthings.ning.com/). The idea is to find five things everyday where we can see God's grace and be thankful for those 5 things. I've been trying to do purposely do this everyday - unfortunately, this week a few days were forgotten due to various circumstances...but I wanted to share what my 5 things were today:

1. Sun shining on me while I was at work!

2. During tutoring, adjectives was the grammar part we went over and "randomly" the book that my tutoree picked out to read matched up very nicely with our lesson on adjectives!

3. Yummy Thai Chicken leftovers for dinner

4. No wait for the subway today on my way to AND from school!

5. Encouraging words during staff devotions to live life like we expire very soon

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