It’s a Thankful Thursday!! 🥰 #lindarinsights #grateful #gratitude

 

It's A Thankful Thursday!!

 

Ways To Practice Gratitude - SEL

 

Ways To Practice Gratitude

• Write out 3 things that you are grateful for everyday.
• Create a Gratitude Jar
• Write someone a Thank You note.
• Be Kind

Teaching Gratitude In SEL Classes

 

As an Intervention Specialist one of my favorite SEL topics to teach is about gratitude on Thursdays. #thankfulthursdays

Reasons To Practice Gratitude

It's A Thankful Thursday!!!

There are various reasons to practice gratitude.

• To see the goodness in your life.
• To show abundance.
• To show appreciation.

You practice gratitude by:

• Write out 3 things that you are grateful for.
• Send a note to a relative or friend to let them know that you appreciate them.
• Practice random of acts of kindness.

Thankful Thursday | May Your Day Be Filled

May your day be filled with gratitude. 

May you day be filled with opportunities to be kind to others & to yourself. 

May your day be filled with joy. 

May your day be filled. 

#ThankfulThursday

Wellness Webinar.2 | Practice Gratitude

Collective Resilience

Last night when Quiera posted in the group chat about the passing of Chadwick Boseman, I honestly went to Google to see who she was referring to because it couldn't have been The Black Panther. It just couldn't be him. It just couldn't be another incredible loss for us. Not right now. It just couldn't be. After settling into the reality of this loss, I went directly to YouTube to find an episode of Black Jeapordy that makes me laugh every time I see it like it's my first time seeing it. I needed to laugh last night. 

2020 has been a year of unimaginable loss, sickness, destruction, brutality, disappointment, isolation and gratitude. Yes, gratitude. Through our collectives losses we have shown collective resilience. From Kobe to Covid, to George, to Breonna, to Ahmad, to Jacob, and now to Chad. It's been hard, sad and tearful and yet we show up for each other, whether it's 6 feet apart with our masks on, on Zoom for a meetup or on social media just trying to make sense out of everything . And it's so much at one time to try to make sense of.

Resilience. An ability to recover after being stretched. We come from ancestors who endured and survived many adversities. We not only honor that, we also have to acknowledge that we carry that resilience within ourselves too. Maybe we never knew it was there until now. There's a meme that suggests that we check on our strong friends, we are honestly at the point where we need to check on each other often and gently with loving kindness. Many of us are not well and it seems that each unexpected blow hits harder and harder. It's leaving us to question so many things, like our faith and God, and still not have an answer for any of it. 

Yet, I offer this. 2020 was slated as the year of vision. It's been hard to see through everything that has come at us but just maybe this is the year to hone in on our purpose while we are still living. To put the seeds in the earth, through our pain, heartache and discomfort, that will honor our legacy. Maybe 2020 is that year where we are stretched uncontrollably beyond our comfort zone to ultimately realize the resilience that lies within us.

Thankful Thursdays

It’s a #thankfulthursday❤️ What are you thankful for today? 

Normally I write out 3 things I’m thankful for every day but here lately I can think of way more. God, I thank you for my family. I thank you for my older son who is the bomb dot com and has taken on leadership roles in our family with grace. I thank you for my younger son who is each day flourishing in his “new normal” of online learning and understanding that order brings about peace as we all try to “figure it out”. 

God, I thank you for the comforting sounds of trains and beautiful spaces to just be. I promise you I have so much more to thank God for. He’ll bring about calm in chaos. #thatsawordrightthere

I encourage you to look for the good in these times. 

Time is filled with swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.

Originally posted at Arlinda Christine Ministries