Carpé Diem - Seize the Day! a message arriving in your life when you need it most!
From the desk of Florence Rita Rickards, Certified Transformational Dreambuilder Coach, Certified Life Mastery Consultant, Certified Life Success Consultant, and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
For the Week of October 13, 2025
"Happy Thanksgiving"
Hello, Friend!
What are you feeling grateful for this Thansgiving? I wonder?
Traditionally, Thanksgiving has been a time to give thanks for the harvest, for the bounty that we have. The custom of giving thanks for the annual harvest is one of the world's oldest celebrations.
But, bounty and abundance come in many forms. And, what I am feeling really grateful for this Thanksgiving is LIFE! First and foremost, I am SUPER grateful for LIFE! Not everyone woke up today. I am grateful to be ALIVE! I have had many close calls this past couple of years. Many health challenges and several life saving surgeries. I am grateful for the many nurses and medical professionals (too many to list them all) that provided me with care. I am grateful for the highly skilled surgeons that performed successful, intricate surgeries on my body. And grateful that my body was responding, healing and recovering.
But then after all that, on January 29th, I was in a car accident that left me with multiple injuries and totalled my vehicle! It was one more reminder that all the skilled surgeons in the world and all the incredible pacemakers they have designed and manufactured, might be able to make my heart beat, but the one who gives me life is far greater than any circumstance, condition or situation I have ever faced or will ever face. I am grateful that my body is healing again! and that I am on the Road to Recovery again! Yay! :-) I am Grateful that God wants me to continue living his Passion and Purpose for my Life! Super Yaayyy!!
I am also grateful for connections with loved ones and friends, for a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and the heart to do good for others.
Gratitude is the frequency that is harmonious with abundance.
Research has shown that when you are feeling grateful for what's already in your life, you become a powerful magnet for more love, more joy and more abundance. When you are "feeling" grateful,you are "vibrating" at afrequency that attracts more abundance to you!
There are so many ways we can feel and show our gratitude: being patient in traffic or in a line up at the grocery store; saying a kind word to a grocery clerk who has been standing, checking groceries for hours; thanking her/him and telling them that you appreciate them; being patient and kind when waiting on hold for a lengthy time and finally having our call answered. (I sat on hold with one organization for over an hour this past week.) And I have noticed that more than one organization has a recording while you are on hold that is asking you to refrain from speaking unkindly or in a hostile manner with the associate who takes your call. OMG!
I am so grateful when I go to the grocery store and I see all of the hard working people making sure we have groceries to buy. And I am grateful for the food that is on the shelves. Think of all that it takes to get the grocery items and produce to our stores and onto the shelves! All the people that work so very hard all along the food chain! It is mind boggling when you think of it. So we really do have a lot to be grateful for!
I am so very grateful for all the wonderful people that I have in my life, like you Friend. And I am grateful for all the lives that I have been blessed to serve and support over the years! Grateful that God has used me and is continuing to use me! Thank You God!
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Friend, I am wishing you a harvest of Blessings, lots of Love, good Health, and Good Times!
As Always, with LOVE, Your Passion & Purpose Igniter! and Partner in Believing! |
