TGIF Reimagined
TGIF has come to represent many different acronyms – depending on the mood:
THANK GOD I’M FABULOUS – is my default chant.
THANK GOD IT’S FILM(NIGHT) – is Tin’s chant since Friday’s are movie night.
THANK GOD I’M FINISHED – is my end of project whoop.
After years of my prayers of asking for forgiveness, I’ve shifted all my prayers to avowing gratitude instead. I am thankful morning, noon and night. Gratitude oozes from my every pore.
And I’ve come to believe that simple things like walking to City Park this morning in hopes of seeing pelicans, is in and of itself a way to isolate time for joy. I realized the cool front we had for a moment was just a tease and they are not ready to come inland to winter, but still I am looking forward to their return.
I feel as if my soul has been tie dyed out of all of the colorful events that have made up my life as of late, and now I just am awestruck by how beautiful things are – the rye grass growing by the post office, the humongous sunflower in front of a house I saw on the way to the park today, a blue jay that hopped over the grass to get to me, the milkweed I planted in front that was devoured by caterpillars and has now leafed up again ready for the butterflies to emerge and start the process all over again – and the sum of this beauty lies in wait for a beholder.
Me!
Someone posted this today and I snatched it:
Plotinus phrase has me awestruck: the soul that beholds the beautiful becomes beautiful.
The writer and poet Jaiya John posted this today on his site:
Two desires live in us. One of the soul, and one caused by fear. Learn to live a life of soul desire. The beauty of which will set this world afire. And a new world will rise. And you shall taste the sweet spice of Fulfillment.
© Jaiya John
I now add to my repertoire of TGIF chants:
THANK GOD I’M FULL
THANK GOD I’M FEARLESS
THANK GOD I’M FLYING
THANK GOD I’M FOUND
THANK GOD I’M FINE
THANK GOD I’M FORTUNATE
THANK GOD I FLOWER
