Wanting to start healing...

In light of everything that has been going on the past 6 days, I thought it would be nice for us to post what we are thankful for... to turn our eyes from all the depressing things, and look to what we have..
I will start...

I am thankful for:

a loving husband

a happy marriage

happy healthy children

great friends I can turn to in times of stress and trouble

beautiful flowers

and a country that gives me many freedoms.

take care all,
Nina

And for me:
Wife (of course)...great land for gardening...great job...nice community...beautiful garden...a faithful garden dog (Marty...no, my name is not Marty, I'm Jon...the dog is Marty)...wonderful nation and the freedom to live as I choose.

Being alive,giving life,enjoying life and getting to know so many great,caring folks that I've met here'If I die tonight,I'll have died a happy woman'Thank you all' Sis'

I'm thankful for days when it's peaceful. I'm thankful for my husband who I could kill sometimes :-). I'm especially thankful that I can walk, see, smell and touch the bounties of mother nature. I'm thankful for my friends at DG and thankful to Dave and Trish for giving us such a lovely home from home. I'm grateful for my parents who taught me to love. For my wonderful children and my grandchildren. I'm grateful that I'm nuts about my cats and they adore me. But above all I am thankful that I have such a loving God who makes everything possible!!

I'm thankful for every breath I take because I realize that they won't last forever.
I'm thankful for the wonderful children I have been fortunate enough to hold in my arms because I have a child the Lord is holding until I join them.
I'm thankful for a family and a husband that love me more than I deserve because I am not the best person I can be.
More than that I am most thankful that I can sit here and appreciate that I have these things as some poor soles don't ever see that life is truely wonderful.

Good thread Nina !

My sons.
My garden and countryside in which it's set.
Freedom.
Education and good books.
This computer (sometimes!)
My staggeringly good looks and high intelligence.
My modesty ( !!)
My sense of wonder as I look at the world and the Universe around us.
Animals - all of them.
A sense of humour.
The goodness that is in most people - if they let it come out.

Jo

I am thankful for my DH, for my blended family of 6 children, for my 4 beautiful grandchildren, for my 2 very precious daughters-in-love, for my home, for my very being. I am thankful for all of you, and I am thankful for all that I glean from this great site.

"eyes"

I am thankful for yesterday, today and tommorrow!

I am thankful that I wasn't one of the victims in last week's disaster.

I am thankful that I have my children and my husband to share this world with.

I am thankful that we were blessed with nature to delight our senses.

I am thankful for the lives who have touched my own and made me a better person.

I am thankful that this world was created for us and that I can share it with people like you.

I'm thankful for my husband, it's almost been twenty years. I'm very thankful he put up with me this long.

I'm thankful for my married daughter who comes to see me almost every day and brings the light of my life, my little granddaughter.

I'm thankful for my wandering son, who called me Tuesday, just to make sure I was okay and to let me know he was.

I'm thankful for the two precious lives that will be born into our family this winter and for my other two sons who will be wonderful fathers.

I'm thankful for Dave's and all of you.

I'm thankful that Brugmansia's preemie baby is doing okay.

I'm thankful it seems we're getting over the hump.

I am thankful for my family. Who sometimes I am aggrivated with, but when times are tough are always there for me.
I am thankful to be ablebodied, and of sound mind.
I am thankful for all the wonderful teachers and staff, who take excellent care of my children during the day.(a public school too!)
I am thankful I was born here in the United States.
I am thankful , for all the "guardian angels" in my life , strangers who seemed to come along at just right time when I needed help.
I am thankful I know many of my neighbors, and we watch over each other.
I am thankful , for this wonderful and sometimes terrible earth.
I am thankful for Jesus, he has watched over me all my life.

I was going to say I'm thankful I live in the midwest and was not a victim in the disaster, and that I do not know anyone who was a victim -- Smiln32 sorta beat me to it.

I'm thankful for our strong leaders who, I hope, will get us thru any upcoming war quickly.

I'm thankful for my family (even my goofy husband!) for their love and support and just that feeling of belonging. I'm thankful I have purpose--I'm not famous and will not save the world--but my family, friends, job and home give me a reason to get up every morning. I guess I'm thankful I've been able to keep a job, get promotions and support myself and my family.

I'm thankful I found this addicting hobby called gardening -- I'm still amazed that I can plant something in the ground and it grows. Am I a magician or what?!?

Thanks for this thread -- there are so many things, I could never list them all. I feel better already.

Laura(*~*)

i am thankful that i can be thankful *grin*

I can't think of anything to be thankful for:)
My back hurts, have tendonitis in my left elbow, my right shoulder hurts where I threw it out of joint in a gardening accident, my feet hurt....and I am getting a headache thinking of all these things:)
Oh, guess I am thankful Dave closed down that very popular, albeit somewhat hostile, religious/anti-religious thread:)

I am thankful for this day and all the wonderful people at DG! You people are the best ever!

What am I not thankful for!?! I saw the sunrise the other day It was truly amazing!

What a great thread, if only we could remember each day how to be truly thankful and not sweat the small stuff, knowing full well it is all small stuff...except the things that we are thankful for that is...like tucking my babies in at night, and seeing the fruit of our lives ripen and grow sweeter with each day!