31 Days of Gratitude: Allowing Growth & Unfolding

"My eyes were bigger than my stomach." You ever hear that saying when someone's heaped too much on their plate to finish eating?

Well here's a new saying:
"My ideas are bigger than my hands."

In other words, it's that feeling you get when 
you can't accomplish

everything you'd like to accomplish 
in the timeframe you'd like to get it done. 
Sigh. Does that feel familiar?

In a world that seems on fast-forward with our electronic capacity, the illusion of instantaneous big results is cultivated. 
It sells well. 
We'd all like some of that. :)

But the acorn does not become the magnificent Oak tree overnight, or even in a few years. The same is true for relationships, health, peace, careers... 

all must be nurtured 
...tended 

                                     ...allowed to unfold and grow.

And there is so much beauty and blessing in that.

So I find myself grateful for the moment of impatience at not being able to accomplish all that I wish. For it reminds me to release the illusion and embrace the blessing of the present moment.

...

I am grateful for the opportunity to recognize the power of the present moment.

I am thankful I have the time and space to attune to the quality and essence and direction of this moment 

so I can engage the power and beauty held within it

which, if embraced, make life so sweet.

all 31 days of gratitude begin here

{I host a weekly linky party. Come find out more here!  I'm sharing 31 Days of Gratitude with...Monday: Craftomaniac, Making The World Cuter, Alderberry Hill, Project Queen, Skip to My Lou, Cherished Bliss; Tuesday:  Not Just a Housewife, Elizabeth & Co., The DIY Dreamer, Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog, Savvy Southern Style, Uncommon, What We Wore & Made, Gingersnap Crafts, The NY Melrose Family. ; Wednesday: All Star Block Party, The 36th Avenue, Live-Laugh-Rowe, Handy Man Crafty Woman, The Trendy Treehouse; Thursday: Scissors & Spatulas, My Repurposed Life, Frugal Girls, Shabby Nest; Friday:  Funky Junk Interiors, Happy Hour, Anything Goes, Finding Fabulous, My Simple Home Life, Romantic Home, French Country Cottage, Tatertots and Jello, Thirty Handmade Days, Naptime Crafters, Stuff & Nonsense, One Creative Mommy; Saturday:  Be Different Act Normal, Tutus & Tea Parties, Positively Splendid, Sew Country Chick; Sunday: Nifty Thrifty Things, DIY Project Parade, I Should be Mopping The Floor, Under The Table and Dreaming, My 1929 Charmer, Sew Darned Crafty; Brassy Apple, Making Monday Marvelous,}