New Day, New Opportunities to Refocus and Be Grateful

I'm so grateful for a new day because this new day brings opportunities to refocus on those things that are positive and can help to change me mentally, spiritually and emotionally. It's so easy to get caught up on what might be going in a direction other than the one I would like. However, I am trying my best to continue to think on those things that are positive, those things for which I'm grateful.

I do believe my thinking can change my outcomes and bring about change. It's not an easy thing to do but I keep at the task so I can reap rewards.

I am not trying to fool myself or anyone else. Yes, these times are tough but they do not have to dictate the way everything will always be in our lives. Yes, prayer, much prayer, coupled with faith, does help. I feel within myself that things are going to get better for us.

This new day offers us the opportunity to be grateful not only for those things we had yesterday and before but to be grateful for what we are enjoying now. Each day gives us new things for which to be grateful. I would challenge you to see what new things you are grateful today that you were not grateful for yesterday. Each day there should be an effort to being grateful for new things (not forgetting those old things). We are offered so much each day. There is no certain number of grateful items on our list, just list them. This is a part of re-focusing our thoughts to look at the new things in life that we are given.

In my being granted a new day and opportunities to refocus, today, I'm grateful for traveling grace, laughter with friends, completed projects, food to eat, understanding loved ones, things that are not stopped because of others, opportunities that are offered for tomorrow to learn from and grow, trials and tribulations, ability to return home after working out of the house, the quietness of my home, opportunities to reorganize my home.

Have you started your list? What did you come up with? I wish you a day full of new opportunities and new things for which to be grateful.