{"id":5877,"date":"2015-08-24T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:33:04","slug":"express-and-live-a-life-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/express-and-live-a-life-of-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Express and Live A Life of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 William Arthur Ward<\/p>\n

Tonight I have been thinking a lot about Gratitude. My life has been a huge whirlwind the last several months. Some things I have experienced have been amazing and some things I have experienced have been incredibly challenging. I suppose that is the same for all of our lives. But today especially I am feeling incredibly grateful because new blessings have come into my life as of late and one specific trial I have gone through has finally come to an end today. The gratitude I am feeling\u00a0today is hard to put into words, but I am going to try because I think expressing our gratitude is incredibly important. That is why I love the opening quote of today\u2019s blog so much. When we feel gratitude in our hearts it is wrong not to express it!<\/p>\n

First I am grateful to my Heavenly Father because He has blessed my life beyond measure. When things go right for me I know He played a major role in it. When things go wrong for me He helps me through it. And when things seem to be confusing and I can\u2019t understand why things are going the way they are I know that He is the one ultimately in charge and He is always leading me toward something that will be for my own best good. I am eternally grateful to know that.<\/p>\n

Second I am grateful to my family. I have the most amazing husband and the most incredible two children any mother could ask for. They are my entire world. They mean everything to me and I cannot thank them enough for their love and support in my life. And now to make it even better I am soon getting the most beautiful daughter-in-law on the inside and out! #eternallyblessed<\/p>\n

Third I am grateful for my friends. I have amazing friends, and incredible mentors in my life. I find myself surrounded by greatness in every aspect of my life. From my neighbors to my coworkers to all the other friends in my life. They make me a better person because I associate with them.<\/p>\n

Finally I am grateful to my support system. In my business and personal affairs I have been supported by the best and the brightest. I have had amazing lawyers and accountants and clients and partners and employees and all kinds of people I work with on every aspect of managing my business and personal affairs and I am so grateful for the guidance and advise they provide me. Finding good people you can trust is not easy, but when you do it is a massive blessing and something to be appreciative every day.<\/p>\n

I love this quote by John F. Kennedy and the reminder it gives:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to LIVE by them.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And so my goal is to not only express gratitude, but to live every day of my life with gratitude.<\/p>\n

Have a blessed day everyone!<\/p>\n

~Amy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.\u201d \u2013 William Arthur Ward Tonight I have been thinking a lot about Gratitude. My life has been a huge whirlwind the last several months. Some things I have experienced have been amazing and some things I have experienced have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7049,6867,1021,501,500,101,46,7058,903,368,550,7055,7051,280,240,1920,7057,6679,2256,179,7059,585,7050,2785,5356,7053,3459,178,51,189,795,3041,364,76,29,244,65,276,7054,7048,232,502,35,3958,2019,3271,7052,264,112,345,7056,260,281,84,4137],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accountants","tag-alexis","tag-amazing","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-attitude","tag-attitude-of-gratitude","tag-belief","tag-believe","tag-blessed","tag-board-members","tag-business-affairs","tag-challenges","tag-children","tag-clarity","tag-confusing","tag-confusion","tag-coworkers","tag-dalton","tag-daughter-in-law","tag-employees","tag-end-of-a-trial","tag-express","tag-express-gratitude","tag-express-thanks","tag-expression","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-friendships","tag-give-thanks","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-god","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-heavenly-father","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-laywers","tag-lessons","tag-live","tag-love","tag-mentors","tag-neighbors","tag-partners","tag-personal-affairs","tag-rollin","tag-self-improvement","tag-support","tag-surrounded-by-greatness","tag-thanks","tag-trials","tag-trust","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}