Thankful Thursday: Closing Year

It's Thankful Thursday — the last of the year. Thank you for spending the Thankful Thursdays with me, for keeping me accountable, appreciative and grateful for things big and small. Sharing thankfulness, I've discovered, slows my pace and makes me mindful, and my gratitude grows when shared with you. Thank you.

Bell Song of Thanks

for patience and prayers
    for holding tight
    and letting go

for mothers     
    who cry in the dark
    and pray for light

for fathers
    reticent as rocks
    solid as time
    
for brothers
    that call

for sisters
    that don’t
    
for the near miss
    the second place
    the small dent

for speaking up
    and stilling down

for lungs to run
    legs to stand
    a heart to believe

for sickness
    and balm
    fortitude and grit

for newborns
    cradled in hopeful hands

for goodbyes
    that shook
    left us sobbing and stranded

for faith
    and song
    and the reminding chime

for giving up
    and starting over

despite of,
    because of,
    almost always
    for

love.

- Drew Myron

Comments

[Jeanne]

Absolutely beautiful--such incredible examples stated so simply. "If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice." (Meister Eckhart)

Blessings and gratitude to you for these weekly gifts.

[Drew]

Jeanne,
Thank you so much.
With gratitude for the close of one season and the opening to another.

Drew

[Jen]

This is my new favorite D.M. Poem. The first one still holds a spot on my fridge and the ornery that accompanied it hangs on our tree. " the world is full of glass...unpack slowly...". Happy 2012 to u and David. One resolution for us is to travel and visit friends more. So y'all gotta come east or we gotta find our way west!

[Jen]

That was supposed to read "ornament" not ornery. Silly iPhone txt correct.

[drew myron]

Oh Jen, thanks so much! I smile to know my words are in your kitchen -- the heart of a home.

P.S. Sometimes my words feel more "ornery" than ornament. : )