Grateful!

I was looking for a card to send and found, in my mother’s dresser, a whole box of thank you cards, 100 of them, with matching green envelopes trimmed in gold. I am sure my sister bought them for her. She always wrote to thank people for gifts, visits, food – anything and everything. And the recipients treasured those notes, keeping them on bulletin boards and stuck up on the visor in a pickup truck. 

I have tried to follow her example, to write to say thank you for any kindness, large or small. I wrote ten notes on those little cards. I don’t know if I will finish the box this year, but my resolution is to express the gratitude I feel for all the goodness that comes my way: for collards and broccoli and tomatoes, for the gift of a kitchen gadget or something sweet and homemade, for a helping hand in a time of need. I am blessed!