Back in May 2014 I started to write down one thing every day on a note card. It had to be less than 10 words, and something that happened that day. No other rules or stipulations. Could be good or bad (most things are good), could be unexpected or something I planned.
15 months later, I'm still writing down one thing every day on my note cards as sort of a daily calendar. It started as an easy way I could log some of the unique or simple or unexpected things that happen in life. Now that I've hit and passed the one year mark, it's really fun to think back to life one year ago and what was happening in my life at the time. I guess you could say it's been my own take on the one thousand gifts list that ann voskamp writes about in her book. I read it a few years back, but wasn't ambitious enough to start my own list of gifts. (And I love lists). At the time, I think I thought her concept of discovering joy in the small things was too simple. But she wisely asks the question, is the height of my joy dependent on the depths on my thanks? God gives us gifts, and as we give thanks for them we unwrap the gift given: joy. I do remember she wrote a lot of nails: "life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time." What I'm writing down each day are not profound things, but I guess you could say it's my nail that is fastening gratitude to my life, in a small but meaningful way.
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