My daily gratitude for:

1. Gods loving embrace, which I feel in meditation.
2. Virgil Fry, one of my long term mentors and spiritual director and one of those I trust most in this world to see me.
3. A Heart Center mother who is always so understanding but yet so passionate about seeing her boy as often as possible.
4. Aiden Hernandez, because he was a really awesome stepson and taught me how to father well.
5. Bradley and Jenna Barker, a couple I met at Pepperdine who showed what connection and being a couple in love with each other and in love with God could mean.
6. The needed rain we received in the last 36 hours. Well needed for sure.
7. The feeling of a child leaning their head on your shoulder.
8. The In Remembrance emails I send out after a death in our Heart Center, which fill a need and provide support and space for grief and connection.
9. Sickness, not in itself of course, but for its slowdown of life and reminder of gratitude for ordinary things and normal life.
10. Having meds in the house for when we are sick.