29-Day Giving Challenge

This month marks the beginning of the traditional holiday season, complete with Thanksgiving - a holiday devoted to being grateful for the bounty in our lives. It’s a time to take notice of what we have, whether that’s things, or people.

I have so much to be grateful for this holiday season - a thriving community of givers, a newly released book, wonderful friends and family, my health, and the opportunity to share the spirit of the 29 Gifts movement with thousands of people.

So in the spirit of the upcoming holiday, as well as that of our 29 Gifts Movement, I have decided to start this discussion in hopes that each of you will leave replies telling us 3 (or more!) things in your life that you are grateful for. What are you grateful for today?

I've also begun a Gratitude Greetings event for this month. You can read more and join in here:
http://givingchallenge.ning.com/events/gratitude-greetings-giving

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So glad to be reminded that the will of God (or the Divine Spirit) will never send you where the Grace of God(or the Divine Spirit) cannot protect you
1. I am grateful for having many wonderful friends who've helped me through many trials and tribulations.
2. A good husband who loves me and has stuck with me for over 20 years.
3. My purr-babies who make me laugh with their antics and keep me busy feeding them.
4. Having a good job and steady income.
5. Having a home and car that are paid for.
6. Having food, shelter, good health, clothing,meaningful work to do, and love in my life.
7. having the good health to enjoy daily physical activity such as a good work out at the gym.
Today I appreciate my tall, gentle husband.
I appreciate my beautiful daughter.
I appreciate my friends.
I appreciate how the internet has expanded my life for the past ten years allowing me to make and maintain so many relationships.
I appreciate the neighborhood we live in and all the very cool things it offers.
I am still floating on a blanket of appreciation for having seen Abraham yesterday.
I appreciate the new apartment we are moving to next door next week.
I appreciate that we'll be able to hire movers.
I appreciate the two new relationships I started yesterday with Jessica and Jumi
I appreciate having a business that allows me so much
I really hope your best friend does stick to it. Abusive relationships are like terminal illnesses. I hope she finds the strength to kick it in the rear! I saw a sign at the hospital earlier in the week which showed a photograph of a young woman, sporting a huge dark handprint bruise on her arm. The caption read "Love shouldn't have to hurt". It really hit me hard. I wish your friend the best of luck.
A few of my gratitudes:
1. To be alive, awake and breathing today - to live!!
2.My health
3 To be living in the best country in the world
4. The love and health of my family (kids and husband, inlaws and parents)
5 The ability to have had savings to pay bills while I wait for the best job in the world to come to me - very soon
6. For this forum
7. My meals and shelter and clothing
8...I am most grateful to be able to give and
9....HOPES and Dreams....I love to hope and dream it is so joyful

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my really fine dogs, pickle and fred,and my delicious healthy lunch i am eating right now.
I am grateful for my children, who continue to remind me what is truly important.
I am grateful for the supportive, loving friends who have helped me during difficult times.
I am grateful for all the lessons I have learned throughout my years, including the painful ones.
I am grateful for the love I have given and for the love I have received.
I am grateful for the colors in the trees - the Spring blossoms, the greens of Summer, the Autumn leaves.
I am grateful for the crisp blue sky of a Fall morning.
I am grateful for the warmth of the sun and the shine of the moon.
I am grateful for the sand between my toes.
I am grateful for the special You who will always be in my heart. I adore you, and I miss you!
I am grateful for the snow, particularly that first one when it doesn't hang around to long. :)
I am grateful for the opportunity to help people become more of who they want to be, to teach them how to use their minds to make the changes in their lives that allow them to realize joy.
I am grateful for a chance to express myself and to give joy to others.
I am grateful!
Hello,

First I am grateful for my two beautiful sons they are the best things that has happened to me, I am blessed having them in my life.

Second I am grateful for my family's health that is the greatest treasure one person can have.

Third I am grateful to have a husband that loves me and likes me for who I am.
i am grateful for my family and the fact that we have each other's support in both good and trying times. i am grateful for my home, my little dog, and that we have a steady income during these economically tough times. i am grateful that i was led to the 29 Gifts community where i have found friends and learned many things over the last ten months. i am grateful for my abundant blessings that i can share with others. i am grateful for my health and a clear mind. i am grateful for my creative gifts which give me so much joy. and i am grateful that i am learning to appreciate the everyday gifts rather than always wishing for things to be different.
I am grateful for the awsome life God has given me...so full of love and beautiful friends, 3 grown children who are amazing beyond my wildest dreams, and 6 grandchildren.

Today the sun is shining bright and I live in the greater Seattle area...that alone is amazing!

I have work that I love, that brings me lots of joy, because I get to be of service to a lot of beautiful people!

That I have decided to do this program of 29 gifts and have two friends who are following me....I know it brings miracles into my life, as I have done something similar in the past.

The opportunities that God gives me each day as he presents someone to me who needs a gift...so amazing!

Blessings and love to all of you!
Carole
I am grateful for my beautiful familly, my two kids and wonderful supporting husband. I am grateful for having the means to go back to school and pursue a career path that I am passionate about. I am grateful for the great job I currently have that provides for my family, to have a house, clothes on our back and a meals on the table. I am ever so grateful to have my health and to be genuinely happy about all aspects of my life :)
Hi there..#1....Grateful that I had money to purchase a Thanksgiving book for my grandson. #2... loving that he read it aloud with great expression and shared that moment with me. #3... extremely grateful for the teachers that he is with the majority of his 7 year old life during this school year!

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