In search of gratitude

In researching gratitude for the Sunday program at the Upper Delaware Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, I came across two practices to elevate one’s relationship to gratitude. One suggested that discard 27 things for nine days. For me, who lives uncomfortably in a fairly cluttered house, it sounded like good plan.

So, for day 1, I went through several junk collections and got rid of a couple of spare bandanas that I never wear and never use, a couple of cardboard boxes, an odd sock or two, a nearly empty deodorant container, a couple of wooden nickels, random notes, a broken comb, a small container of powder, a broken eye-glass beaded thing,y a battery, which I have no idea of whether it is good or not, a name tag or two, a shoe polisher from a fancy hotel, and other such extraneous and worthless trashy type items.

It’s not so much that I am proud of today’s lightening, but I did get rid of 27 different things.

I will do it for the next eight days.

And to that end, I am grateful.