graTituDe

today as i sit here, i am most grateful. for alot, but specifically for two specific things:) uno: the loving-kindness and generosity of friends. all of them, but im thinking specifically of one family in particular. they asked Joey and i to come with them on vacation. out of nowhere. wanting nothing. expecting zilch from me except my presence. and so we went...it was wonderful and sunny and fun and refreshing and humid and joyous and sometimes a little loud, but it was surrounded with love. i am grateful to have friends that would include us in something that we had no reason or right to be included in, except for the fact that we are friends, and our hearts are connected in Christ. i guess thats enough reason... for them, for Florida, and for their love, i am truly grateful. so that was like 3 things wrapped into my first point, i apologize. the second thing i was originally thinking of in my gratitude would be a revelation that came forth as a result of our roadtrip down to FL. it was brought to my attention by this same company that i was in fellowship with that i apparently was either taught wrong (id like to chaulk it up to this) or somehow developed the bad habit of driving completely annoyingly (from a passengers viewpoint)when it comes to the whole actions involved in accelarating and decelerating. i was blind to this, yet i've found that a good many of my past passengers have been well aware of this little issue of mine. now would be an appropriate time to apologize to all of you who hold secretly to the fact that you never want to be in the same vehicle as i if im at the wheel...i am truly sorry. i was unaware, ignorant if you will, of the fact i was doing it all wrong. and now i know. someone has shown me the light, and i fully own the fact that i had to have been an awful chauffer to some of you. but that chapter of my life is now over. it is finished. i've been taught anew, and now i drive anew. i feel so enlightened now behind the wheel, its like a challenge to keep from reverting to my ways of old, a challenge that i embrace each and everytime i stick the key in the ignition. and so the gratitude flows...for this revelation and for the changes that have occured in my life because of it.