A Year of Gratitude – January 12, 2024

I found my gratitude on my morning round of farm chores this morning. As my feet fell on the ground below, each footstep made a crunching sound as it came into contact with a thin layer of frost.

In a single week’s time we have watched more than a foot of snow fall on the farm. Then we watched as inches of rain washed it away. We’ll see more snow soon enough. It is winter in New England after all.

I decided to take a stroll through our gardens and came upon this plant in my mom’s perennial garden. The colors on the leaves against the frost were so beautiful.

There is so much beauty in the world, but beauty like this is easy to miss. On most days, I wouldn’t have seen it. In a typical winter, it would have still be covered in a foot or more of snow.

But today, it was here and so was I. I was grateful for its beauty and for the fact that I had taken a diversion from my usual path and seen it.

I hope that you find some beauty in your day today. It’s out there, I promise you. I hope that you’ll look for it today and give yourself the time and space to marvel at it.

This post is part of our A Year of Gratitude Series. You can find the introduction, inspiration, and entire year’s gratitude’s posts here.