family – Matters of the Heart

Lessons From A Beach Pier

It took time, maturity and reflection to realize the lessons given from the pier:

Solitude is a well-deserved gift to yourself.
When you fish, you clean the fish. Jobs are sometimes no fun, but we receive the rewards of the labor.
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to enjoy a day.
Life often only needs vivid sunshine, glistening water, sturdy pier, fishing pole, and positive attitude.
Even when you have the basics of life there are still messy fish to be cleaned and prickly splinters that cause pain.
A calm demeanor and perseverance are the sunshine on our souls.

Every morning for several years now, I’ve jump-started my day with my much-required-coffee and writing in a gratitude journal all that I am grateful for from the prior day. I believe that almost every day provides some thing or things to reflect on that I should not take for granted. And starting each day withContinue reading “Thanksgiving Gratitude”