Grateful

This post was meant for yesterday.

Or maybe the day before.

Today was supposed to be a post all about how I uncharacteristically dragged myself out of bed in the wee hours of the morn to force my husband to uncharacteristically spend some hard-earned cash on a laptop to replace the two that crashed and burned months ago...

We do well together.

But, in all this Friday's black glory, I feel like I need to back up a bit and give proper creedence to the blessings I have received in life.

But first of all...

Inconsistency, thy name is Andi. 

I had such grand ambitions as to do a complete follow-through with my Project Plenty...and I still do...but, of course, it will all come after the fact.  And not that there's anything wrong with expressing gratitude at any time of the year.  It's just that I was hoping for a big lead-up to Turkey Day.  But, alas, my life is but a vain attempt at ____________.  (You fill in the blank.)

Despite my erratics (don't know if that's a word, and don't frankly care), I will say that I have been thinking a lot over the past few weeks of all of the behind-the-scenes things that I am grateful for.

Most years I focus on the immediate and the tangibles:

Spouse
House
Family
Friends
Food
Love
Religion

And this year I am certainly grateful for all of those things.  That has not changed.

But, lately, I find myself reflecting on every note, every rest, every chord, every fermata, every instrument, every musician and every lilt of the Conductor's arm that has crescendoed to bring me to the very moment where I am at in this epic forte of my life.

It is a masterpiece that transcends the limitations of my keyboard to express.

So many of these elements have blessed you, too, I know.  And like a J.K. Rowling book on fire, there are so many details from book one that are now just playing a major role in book five (or wherever I may be). 

I am in awe.

And I am constantly humbled.

By the bounteous blessings of my common, yet delicate, existence in mortality.

Yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow, my heart is full of thanks.

And I publicly render such expressions so that I may tell the world that there is a God in Heaven who loves us beyond our capacity to completely understand.  And, that as my Eternal Father, thus far He has given me a life beyond my deepest hopes and dreams.

And for that, I am eternally grateful.