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This week I'm thankful for...
- "just because" flowers from the hubby
- rain on the roof
- reading in bed
- road trips with friends
- celebrating two of my dearest friends by eating their birthday cake for breakfast
- the school kids who sang the national anthem at the Kings game and their choir teacher who was so proud of them that she was literally bouncing
- poetry. It's been an exhausting week fighting for what I feel is in the best interest of my students. And when I'm discouraged, I turn to poetry. Here's my favorite from the week:
A Prayer
Let me do my work each day;
and if the darkened hours
of despair overcome me, may I
not forget the strength
that comforted me in the
desolation of other times.
May I still remember the bright
hours that found me walking
over the silent hills of my
childhood, or dreaming on the
margin of a quiet river,
when a light glowed within me,
and I promised my early God
to have courage amid the
tempests of the changing years.
Spare me from bitterness
and from the sharp passions of
unguarded moments. May
I not forget that poverty and
riches are of the spirit.
Though the world knows me not,
may my thoughts and actions
be such as shall keep me friendly
with myself.
Lift up my eyes
from the earth, and let me not
forget the uses of the stars.
Forbid that I should judge others
lest I condemn myself.
Let me not follow the clamor of
the world, but walk calmly
in my path.
Give me a few friends
who will love me for what
I am; and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
And though age and infirmity
overtake me, and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful
for life, and for time's olden
memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening's
twilight find me gentle still.
~ Max Ehrmann ~
