Today I approach Sunday evening feeling grateful. I’m grateful for this incredible opportunity. I’m grateful for a fantastic Church which felt like home from home, wonderful worship and a brilliant message. I’m grateful for my wonderful hosts who I am privileged to have spent the day with. I am grateful for a culinary extravaganza at the Ritz and for promises of a fabulous week planned for me. I am grateful for new shoes (following the admission that mine were more pain than gain!) and a beautiful city to buy them in. I am grateful for being here on the day of a Hindu festival and in the run up to preparations for Chinese New Year – a real treat for an R.E. Teacher!
I have been learning about gratitude today. Gratitude for those who have prepared the way for us. I have thought about Holocaust Memorial Day and the gratitude we will again show to those who ensure our freedom. I am left pondering the way we pass on a habit of gratefulness.