Hello Hive Reach outcommunity and welcome to my entry on what I’m most grateful for this year so far.
Also, i must say this is my first time posting in this community and i am super excited to share with you all on this topic as it was one I couldn’t overlook, a chance to be grateful.
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So far so good, I have to say I am so grateful for so many things this year that I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to sum them all up even in 500 words. Above all, I am most grateful for one thing, and it may sound a bit vague or rather strange as what I am grateful for is self-awareness.
Photo by Eva Bronzini: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cutout-words-on-a-flat-surface-5941184/
Quite abstract right? well let me explain, when I say i am grateful for self-awareness I mean I am grateful simply because I know. Not that I know how, but just that I know. I know it doesn’t seem make sense but stay with me I’m heading somewhere.
Last year I spent the entire 31st indoors praying for one thing, that I didn’t repeat the mistake of 2024. 2024 was the year I had such a long list of things to achieve for the year but I’m not sure I ticked one. It was almost like I watched the year went by so unnoticed. It felt like I was doing so much yet I was doing nothing and I didn’t know till I went back to check my list. And I said one prayer. lord, in the year 2025 I will not be contained and I prayed like my life depended on it and I believe God interpreted that prayer in one way. AWARENESS.
I didn’t pray that I shouldn’t get distracted or face problems, or challenges but I prayed that in the midst of all that comes my way; let it not contain me that I remain there throughout the year without even knowing.
What am I sayingin essence? In life problems will come, distractions will come but we can only pray to overcome and that is if we even know we are off course. It is one thing to be facing the wrong path, and it is another thing to know you are facing the wrong path.
So I am most of all grateful for self-awareness.
Not that I have not had challenges this year as a matter of fact, this has been my most challenging year ever but I’m grateful that at every point I took the wrong path or strayed I was able to acknowledge it, pause, and retrace my step.
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I most grateful that I have been able to not see my life as unaccomplished, but thank God for the little thing that makes life beautiful. To not feel like I’m all alone when he provided me with such a wonderful family that cares so much. To be able to run to the throne of Grace that I may obtain favor amidst all my fallacy.
I am most gratefulthat I am self-aware enough to know when I’m missing it and come back and even though that is the only thing I achieve for this year, to stay on track, I know I have done nobble.
Thank you so much for reading through. I remain your veryenthusiastic writer @gemangel.